Management architecture of peer-to-peer optical networks

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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.