Towards a resilient and programmable optical network with dynamic lightpath as a service

Abstract

With the growing adoption of programmable networks, the protection and restoration schemes for optical networks needs to be thoroughly looked into so as to guarantee efficiency and resiliency for the new Software Defined Network (SDN) architectures. This paper presents a work in progress for the design of a software defined wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical network with dynamic lightpath as a service. The main aim of the study is to fully understand the effects of incorporating optimization algorithms within SDN-based switch to ensure a resilient data plane of the programmable network.