Deployment and Interoperability of the Phosphorus Grid Enabled GMPLS (G2MPLS) Control Plane

Grid-GMPLS (G²MPLS) is conceived as a powerful network control plane solution that enhances the standard ASON/GMPLS architecture providing single-step resource reservation, co-allocation and maintenance of both network and Grid resources. This paper identifies and discusses the main issues and considerations that arise by network research and educational networks and network operators in order to facilitate the dissemination of G²MPLS control plane. Interoperability issues and backwards compatibility with existing network control planes centre the scope of this study, which intends to demonstrate the feasibility of adopting the proposed architectures.