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Experimental Assessment of a Resilient PCE/GMPLS Controlled Translucent Wavelength Switched Optical Network

Lei LIU, Takehiro TSURITANI, Ramon CASELLAS, Ricardo MARTÍNEZ, Raül MUÑOZ, Munefumi TSURUSAWA, Itsuro MORITA

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A translucent wavelength switched optical network (WSON) is a cost-efficient infrastructure between opaque networks and transparent optical networks, which aims at seeking a graceful balance between network cost and service provisioning performance. In this paper, we experimentally present a resilient translucent WSON with the control of an enhanced path computation element (PCE) and extended generalized multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS) controllers. An adaptive routing and wavelength assignment scheme with the consideration of accumulated physical impairments, wavelength availabilities and regenerator allocation is experimentally demonstrated and evaluated for dynamic provisioning of lightpaths. By using two different network scenarios, we experimentally verify the feasibility of the proposed solutions in support of translucent WSON, and quantitatively evaluate the path computation latency, network blocking probability and service disruption time during end-to-end lightpath restoration. We also deeply analyze the experimental results and discuss the synchronization between the PCE and the network status. To the best of our knowledge, the most significant progress and contribution of this paper is that, for the first time, all the proposed methodologies in support of PCE/GMPLS controlled translucent WSON, including protocol extensions and related algorithms, are implemented in a network testbed and experimentally evaluated in detail, which allows verifying their feasibility and effectiveness when being potentially deployed into real translucent WSON.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E94-B No.7 pp.1831-1844
Publication Date
2011/07/01
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1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E94.B.1831
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Joint Special Section on Opto-electronics and Communications for Future Optical Network)
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