SDN orchestration of OpenFlow and GMPLS flexi-grid networks with a stateful hierarchical PCE [invited]

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages A106-A117

  Casellas, Ramon ^a   Munoz, Raul ^a   Martinez, Ricardo ^a   Vilalta, Ricard ^a   Liu, Lei ^b   Tsuritani, Takehiro ^c   Morita, Itsuro ^c   Lopez, Victor ^d   De Dios, Oscar Gonzalez ^d   Fernandez Palacios, Juan Pedro ^d  

^a CTTC ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^d TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hierarchical PCE (H PCE); Optical network control and management; Optical OpenFlow; Orchestration; Path computation element (PCE); Software defined networking (SDN); Stateful

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HIERARCHICAL PCE (H-PCE); OPENFLOW; OPTICAL NETWORK CONTROL; ORCHESTRATION; PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENTS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); STATEFUL;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84922281674     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.7.00A106     Document Type: Article

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