The rapid growth of the Internet raises the importance of resource planning of Internet protocol（IP） over elastic optical networks（EONs）, which is a challenging task due to more complex and obscure physical constraints of it. Compared with network cost, the power consumption may eventually become the barrier to the expansion of the Internet. We present an energy-efficient virtual topology design（VTD） scheme for IP over EON. We explicitly explain and analyze the mixed integer linear programming model and the heuristic algorithm for this scheme. Numerical results show that the proposed VTD scheme can significantly save power consumption.
Mobile free space optical networks have aroused much attention due to the ability of providing high speed connectivity over long distance using the wireless laser links,while requiring relatively high available bandwidth resource and less energy consumption.However,maintaining the network with laserlinks is quite challenging due to a number of issues,such as the link fragility,the difficulty in pointingand tracking of the link,which also raises the great difficulty in the control of the network.In this paper,we present the methodology for the deployment of the mobile freespace optical networks based on our proposed OpenFlow-based control architecture.In addition,a new routing scheme is proposed and demonstrated on the testbed based on this control architecture.Delivery ratio,average delivery delay and time complexity are given to verify the performance of the OpenFlow-based control architecture.
ZHAO Yongli GAO Lingnan YIN Xingbin YU Yue ZHANG Jie
With the emergence of high-bitrate applications, cross stratum optimization （CSO） attracts the interest of network operators because of its application in the joint optimization of optical networks and application stratum resources. Given the large-scale growth and high complexity of optical networks, achieving a more effective, accurate, and practical CSO becomes an important research focus. In this letter, we present a CSO-oriented, unified control architecture for OpenFlow-enabled triple-M optical networks. A novel dynamic global load balancing （DGLB） strategy with dynamic resource rating for CSO is presented based on the proposed architecture. The DGLB strategy is then compared with four other strategies by conducting experiments on a SOFT-based testbed with 1000 virtual nodes.
Compared to the traditional wavelength division multiplexing （WDM） optical networks with rigid and coarse granularities, flexible spectrum optical networks have high spectrum efficiency, which can support the service with various bandwidth requirements, such as sub and super channel. Among all network performance parameters, blocking probability is an important parameter for the performance evaluation and network planning in circuit^based optical networks including flexible spectrum optical networks. We propose an analytical method of blocking probability computation for flexible spectrum optical networks in this letter through mathematical analysis and theoretical derivation. Two blocking probability models are built respectively based on whether considering spectrum consecutiveness or not. Numerical results validate our proposed blocking probability models under different link capacity and traffic loads.
