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

该项目旨在使用利用光子集成电路(PIC)的动态光网络技术来研究新的动态交换光网络体系结构。这些技术通过提供当今互联网所不具备的动态、可重新配置的高带宽网络媒介，有可能影响未来的互联网架构。将Geni和Future Internet等网络基础设施迁移到可提供更好扩展、更低功耗和更小占地面积的动态光交换技术将带来巨大好处。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。该项目的预期结果将是新的集成光纤技术和网络算法和架构，支持低成本、动态的光纤电路交换，适用于依赖带宽和连接虚拟化的未来一代网络。这项工作的潜在影响将是克服目前本地数据网络和远程数据网络之间的技术和经济不匹配，实现一个能够以低成本支持许多同时进行的几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.