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Scalable Multi-Layer GMPLS Networks Based on Hierarchical Cloud-Routers
Daisaku SHIMAZAKI Eiji OKI Kohei SHIOMOTO Naoaki YAMANAKA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E88-B
No.3
pp.1119-1127 Publication Date: 2005/03/01 Online ISSN:
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.3.1119 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Network Keyword: GMPLS, scalability, multi-layer, cloud router,
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Summary:
This paper proposes the hierarchical cloud-router network (HCRN) to overcome the scalability limit in a multi-layer generalized multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS) network. We define a group of nodes as a virtual node, called the cloud-router (CR). A CR consists of several nodes or lower-level CRs. A CR is modeled as a multiple switching capability (SC) node when it includes more than one kind of SC, which is fiber SC, lambda SC, time-division multiplexing (TDM) SC, packet SC, even if there are no actual multiple switching capability nodes in the CR. The CR advertises its abstracted CR internal structure, which is abstracted link state information inside the CR. A large-scale, multi-layer network can then achieve scalability by advertising the CR internal structure throughout the whole network. In this scheme, the ends of a link connecting two CRs are defined as interfaces of the CRs. We adopt the CR internal cost scheme between CR interfaces to abstract the network. This CR internal cost is advertised outside the CR via the interfaces. Our performance evaluation has shown that HCRN can handle a larger number of nodes than a normal GMPLS network. It can also bear more frequent network topology changes than a normal GMPLS network.
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