The need for a Control Orchestration Protocol in research projects on optical networking

Author

Vilalta, R. ; Lopez, V. ; Mayoral, A. ; Yoshikane, N. ; Ruffini, M. ; Siracusa, D. ; Martinez, R. ; Szyrkowiec, T. ; Autenrieth, A. ; Peng, S. ; Casellas, R. ; Nejabati, R. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Cao, X. ; Tsuritani, T. ; Morita, I. ; Fernandez-Palacios, J.P.

Author_Institution

CTTC, Castelldefels, Spain

fYear

2015

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

344

Abstract

The Control Orchestration Protocol (COP) abstracts a common set of control plane functions used by an various SDN controllers, allowing the interworking of heterogeneous control plane paradigms (i.e., OpenFlow, GMPLS/PCE). COP has been defined using YANG model language and can be transported using RESTconf, which is being incorporated by industry. COP has been defined in the scope of STRAUSS due to the need for an overarching control plane protocol for network orchestration. In this paper, several research projects describe how the COP could fit in their architecture and propose a use case for COP usage. The proposed COP use cases cover the following research projects: STRAUSS, IDEALIST, DISCUS, COMBO, INSPACE.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; protocols; software defined networking; COMBO project; DISCUS project; IDEALIST project; INSPACE project; SDN controller; STRAUSS project; control orchestration protocol; control plane functions; heterogeneous control plane; optical networking; research projects; software defined network; Computer architecture; Europe; Mobile communication; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Protocols; Wavelength division multiplexing; Control Plane; Network Orchestration; RESTCONF; YANG; research projects; use cases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2015 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCNC.2015.7194095

Filename

7194095