NeTS: JUNO: Service Offering Model and Versatile Network Resource Grooming for Optical Packet and Circuit Integrated Networks

在过去二十年中，以光通信和网络技术的进步为代表的带宽的爆炸性增长支撑了互联网的覆盖范围和可靠性的不断增加。 然而，光学技术日益复杂的最新进展（例如快速切换和弹性波长）的潜在影响尚未实现。 这主要是因为，虽然这种技术可以集成到行星网络的数据平面，但在目前的规划、管理和控制策略中难以适应。在本项目中，我们将与日本NICT的合作研究人员携手合作，致力于实现混合光分组/电路交换的新技术。 这样的技术可能是非常有用的大型传输网络运营商，但有没有现有的算法，可以很容易地确定如何提供一个供应商可以提供他们的资源之间的电路和分组的可能性在一个持续的动态basis.We采取一种新的方法来解决这个问题，利用的概念，一个“选择市场”，体现了复杂的会合语义之间的客户和供应商，并允许它们协作地引导网络资源供应以动态地实现网络目标，例如最大化网络业务所接收的性能。 我们的方法通过平衡各种目标，如网络利用率，延迟和网络中日益重要的能量消耗指标，提供了社会效益。我们的工作将提供一个早期原型，说明客户如何在竞争激烈的市场中购买网络传输服务，从而使提供商生态系统能够实现互利共赢。 该项目将把研究和原型设计活动融入教育，并利用美日合作拓宽学生的教育视野。

The explosive growth in bandwidth represented by advances in optical communication and networking technologies has underpinned the increasing reach and reliability of the Internet in the last two decades. However, the potential impact of increasingly sophisticated recent advances in optical technology, such as rapid switching and elastic wavelengths, have not yet been realized. The main cause of this is that such technology, while possible to integrate into the data plane of planetary networking, is difficult to accommodate in the current planning, management, and control strategies.In this project, we will work hand-in-hand with collaborating researchers from NICT, Japan, who are working to realize a novel technology of hybrid optical packet/circuit switching. Such a technology could be immensely useful to large transport network operators, but there are no existing algorithms that can easily determine how a provider can provision their resources between the circuit and packet possibilities on an ongoing dynamic basis.We take a novel approach to this problem, utilizing the concept of a "choice marketplace" that embodies sophisticated rendezvous semantics between customer and provider, and allows them to cooperatively guide network resource provisioning to dynamically fulfill network objectives such as maximizing performance received by network traffic. Our approach provides social benefit by balancing of various objectives, such as network utilization, latency, and the increasingly important metric of energy expenditure in the network. Our work will provide an early prototype of how customers can shop for network transport services in a competitive marketplace, allowing provider ecosystems to emerge for mutual advantage. The project will integrate research and prototyping activities into education, and utilize the US-Japan collaboration to provide broadening of students' educational horizons.