PCE: What is it, how does it work and what are its limitations?

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 528-543

  Munoz, Raul ^a   Casellas, Ramon ^a   Martinez, Ricardo ^a   Vilalta, Ricard ^a  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Control plane; generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS); multidomain path computation; multilayer path computation; openflow; optical networks; path computation element (PCE); software defined networks (SDN); stateful PCE; stateless PCE

Indexed keywords

CONTROL PLANES; GENERALIZED MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING; OPENFLOW; PATH COMPUTATION; PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENTS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS; STATEFUL PCE; STATELESS PCE;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MULTILAYERS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

OPTICAL MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84893393919     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2276911     Document Type: Article

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