Management architecture of peer-to-peer optical networks

用户控制光网络具有组成特定应用的传送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。组中用户之间的端到端连接是以完全分布式的对等方式建立的。没有集中的网络管理机构来协调这种端到端连接的建立。对等光网络的管理架构与现有的集中式光网络管理架构有着显著的不同。

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.