Collaborative Research: NeTS FIND-Dynamic Optical Circuit Switched (DOCS) Networks for Future Large Scale Dynamic Networking Environments

本项目旨在研究利用光子集成电路（PIC）的动态光网络技术的新型动态交换光网络架构。这些技术有可能影响未来的互联网架构，提供一个动态的，可重新配置的，高带宽的网络介质，在今天的互联网。将GENI和Future Internet等网络基础设施迁移到动态光交换技术具有很大的好处，这些技术可提供更好的扩展性，更低的功耗和更小的占地面积。光传输网络特性（如拓扑和带宽）的虚拟化是DOCS技术可能实现的新功能的示例。该项目的预期成果将是新的集成光技术和网络算法和架构，支持低成本，动态光电路交换的下一代网络，依赖于带宽和连接的虚拟化。这项工作的潜在影响将是克服当前本地数据网络和长途数据网络之间的技术和经济不匹配，实现一个可以以低成本支持许多同时进行的多千兆位实验的网络基础设施。

This project is designed to investigate new dynamically switched optical networking architectures using dynamic optical network technologies that leverage photonic integrated circuits (PICs). These technologies have the potential to impact Future Internet architecture by offering a dynamic, reconfigurable, high-bandwidth networking medium not available in today's Internet. There is great benefit to move network infrastructures like GENI and Future Internet to dynamic optical switching technologies that provide better scaling, lower power and smaller footprint. Virtualization of optical transport network characteristics, like topology and bandwidth, are examples of new capabilities possible with DOCS technology. The expected outcome of this project will be new integrated optical technologies and networking algorithms and architectures that support low cost, dynamic optical circuit switching for future generation networks that rely on virtualization of bandwidth and connectivity. The potential impact of this work will be to overcome current technology and economic mismatches between local data networks and long distance data networks, realizing a network infrastructure that can support many simultaneous multi-gigabit experiments at low cost.