First experimental demonstration of real-time orchestration in a Multi-head metro network

Lida Sadeghioon (1) , Paulette Gavignet (2) , Ahmed Triki (2) , Jean-Luc Barbey (2) , Esther Le Rouzic (2) , Laurent Bramerie (3) , Vincent Alaiwan (3) , Eric Borgne (3) , Christophe Betoule (4) , Bernard Arzur (2) , Arnaud Carer (5)

1 IRISA - Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires
2 Orange Labs [Lannion]
3 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
4 Orange Labs R&D [Rennes]
5 CAIRN - Energy Efficient Computing ArchItectures with Embedded Reconfigurable Resources

We present for the first time the experimental demonstration of a Real-Time control-plane on the Multi-hEad sub-wavElength swiTching (MEET), Metro architecture. The key control assets are calculated and provided to the edge nodes in a form of grant files. These grant files eliminate the contention possibility at source nodes and destinations, thus they offer a lossless passive optical grooming and multiplexing/demultiplexing at the intermediate nodes. The experimental results validate the control plane structure designed based on a deterministic operating system well scalable for a regional metro network.

Mots clés: time-domain wavelength interleaved networking; burst switching; centralised control plane; metropolitan area network

Domaines: Optique / photonique; Optique [physics.optics]

Lida Sadeghioon, Paulette Gavignet, Ahmed Triki, Jean-Luc Barbey, Esther Le Rouzic, et al.. First experimental demonstration of real-time orchestration in a Multi-head metro network. 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2014), Jul 2014, Graz, Austria. pp.1 - 4, ⟨10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876667⟩. ⟨hal-01084900⟩