Management architecture of peer-to-peer optical networks

用户控制的光网络具有组成特定于应用的传输网络和使用来自不同供应商的网络资源的灵活性。每个用户独立拥有和管理一些网络资源。一组用户可以组成特定于应用的传输网络。以完全分布式、对等的方式建立组中用户之间的端到端连接。不存在协调这种端到端连接建立的中央网络管理机构。对等光网络的管理体系结构与现有的集中式光网络管理体系结构有很大的不同。因此，本研究旨在探索对等技术在光网络管理背景下的潜力。这些技术包括发现组成员、搜索组成员提供的可用网络资源、组成员之间的通信、授予和接收资源管理权限等。我们计划将对等光网络的经济性和可用性与运营商管理的光网络进行比较。对等光网络的可用性与单运营商网络中的不同。我们计划使用一种新的测量方法来分析对等光网络的可用性。

User-controlled optical networks have flexibility of composing application-specific transport networks and using network resources from different suppliers. Each user independently owns and manages some network resources. A group of users can compose application-specific transport networks. The end-to-end connections between the users in the group are established in a fully distributed, peer-to-peer manner. There is no centralized network management authority to coordinate such end-to-end connection establishment. The management architecture of peer-to-peer optical networks is dramatically different than the existing centralized optical network management architectures.     This research is to explore the potentials of peer-to-peer technologies in the context of optical network management. Our research goal is to explore the technologies that enable to search optical network resources in a peer-to-peer manner, just as searching for music files. By taking into account the special requirements and characteristics of optical networks, we will customerize the existing peer-to-peer technologies for the management of peer-to-peer optical networks. Such technologies include discovery of group members, search of available network resources offered by group members, communications between group members, granting and receiving the resource management privileges, etc.     We plan to compare the economics and availability of peer-to-peer optical networks with those of carrier managed optical networks. By economics analysis of peer-to-peer optical networks, we want to reveal the benefits of user centric network management, when they take advantage of the diversity and competitions between carriers. The availability of peer-to-peer optical networks is different than that in a single carrier network. Although individual network resource may not be highly available, peer-to-peer optical networks enjoy massive redundancy of similar network resources and therefore potentially offer highly available services. We plan to analyze the availability of peer-to-peer optical networks using a new measurement.