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Study of optical control plane for translucent WDM networks

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In this article, we concentrate on the study of control plane and management approaches for translucent WDM networks. A hybrid optical control plane (OCP) is proposed, which needs the extensions of both routing and signaling protocol, to combine the best features of routing-based information updating and signaling-based data collection and path evaluation. Simulations are conducted to compare hybrid OCP with two existing control architectures: signaling-based OCP and routing-based OCP. Numerical results show that hybrid OCP exhibits a lower blocking probability than the other approaches, and also minimizes the stability and scalability problems under various traffic conditions.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 100876, Beijing, China

    Lei Wang, Jie Zhang, Yongli Zhao & Wanyi Gu

  2. State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Wang, L., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y. et al. Study of optical control plane for translucent WDM networks. Photon Netw Commun 20, 64–74 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-010-0246-2

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