TY - GEN
T1 - Can software-defined networks turn impractical optical functionalities into network-savers?
AU - Ware, Cedric
AU - Lourdiane, Mounia
AU - Samoud, Wiem
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Despite a long history of research into advanced optical functionalities, they have seen little use in practical networks, chiefly because they seldom fit in with existing network paradigms, especially under nonideal conditions. Software-defined networks, on the other hand, aim at expressing complex network architectures in a simpler way. We seek to determine if such an approach can help design networks that fully use the potential of optical functionalities and, if so, to quantify their benefits.
AB - Despite a long history of research into advanced optical functionalities, they have seen little use in practical networks, chiefly because they seldom fit in with existing network paradigms, especially under nonideal conditions. Software-defined networks, on the other hand, aim at expressing complex network architectures in a simpler way. We seek to determine if such an approach can help design networks that fully use the potential of optical functionalities and, if so, to quantify their benefits.
KW - network design
KW - optical communication
KW - optical functionalities
KW - software-defined networking
U2 - 10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876566
DO - 10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876566
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84906766703
SN - 9781479956005
T3 - International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
BT - ICTON 2014 - 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2014
Y2 - 6 July 2014 through 10 July 2014
ER -