1. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago EVL Optical Networking Research Oliver Yu Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago

2. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Comprehensive Research Focus on User, Control and Management Planes Middleware Application Protocols User Plane Control Plane Management Plane Optical-switched DWDM Transport Performance Monitoring Security (e.g. AAA, GSI) Advanced Scheduling Signaling: Lightpath Provisioning Routing:Topology Discovery

3. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Intelligent Application Signaling Middleware Application Protocols Signaling Middleware Signaling Application Protocols User Plane Control Plane Signaling Transport AssociatedOut-of-band Management Plane Photonic-Empowered Applications Optical-switched DWDM Transport

4. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Integrated Control & Management Plane Lambda Switching Label Switching Burst Switching Integrated Control Plane Integrated Management Plane Stream Mbps Stream Gbps Bursty VBR Multiple User Planes

5. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Testbed: OMNInet (Optical Metro Network Initiative) A collaborative academic and industry all-optical metropolitan area network in Chicago based on DWDM and lambda-switching technologies. –Experimental network to validate corporate-focused 10 GigE service models and next generation optical technologies. –Research network to investigate cluster-based LambdaGrid & TeraGrid concepts by university partners. Partnership –Nortel Networks, SBC/Ameritech –UIC/EVL, NU/ICAIR, Argonne National Lab. –CANARIE & other international collaborators.

6. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago OMNInet Architecture Gigabit Cluster OMNInet GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent Gigabit Cluster Network Model –Overlay IP-over-Optical Control Plane –O-UNI between edge device and optical core network. –GMPLS within the optical core network. –Out-of-Band Signaling Network Lambda Switch Edge Router Control Card

7. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago OMNInet Inter-domain Peering Gigabit Cluster OMNInet StarLight GigaPoP/TeraPoP IWIRE GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent Gigabit Cluster SURFNET (Holland) CA*NET4 (Canada)

8. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago EVL Optical Networking Research Issues 1.Intelligent Signaling 2.Flexible Lambda Provisioning 3.User-Empowered Ad-hoc Sharing 4.LambdaGrid Middleware & Toolkit 5.Robust Optical Networking

9. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago 1. Intelligent Signaling Objectives Application-centric Signaling –Enable applications to control and provision lambda-switched paths or lightpaths within an all-optical network. Centralized Control Plane –Intra-Domain GMPLS (Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching) –Inter-Domain OBGP (Optical Border Gateway Protocol) –O-UNI (Optical User Network Interface) Collaborative optical networking: –Dynamic provisioning of lightpaths. –On-demand rerouting of lightpaths.

10. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Intelligent Signaling Framework Intra-domain Intelligent Signaling ODIN (Optical Dynamic Intelligent Signaling) Mechanism TeraAPI THOR (TeraScale High Performance Optical Resource Regulator) GMPLS (Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching) –Extends MPLS control plane to enable resource discovery, routing and lambda controls an all-optical networking environment. Inter-domain Intelligent Signaling LightGate (optical signaling gateway) Mechanism 1 st Phase: Inter-Working Function between OMNInet and NetherLight. 2 nd Phase: Generic scalable signaling gateway between any two domains. –A superset of OBGP (Optical Border Gateway Protocol) to e xtend BGP routing to support lightpath setup & management. –Support domain-level source-routing to complement intelligent signaling.

11. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Intelligent Signaling Framework: Intra-Domain Gigabit Cluster GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent GMPLS Agent Gigabit Cluster Proxy GMPLS Server O-UNI Proxy GMPLS Server O-UNI Web I/F

12. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Intelligent Signaling Framework: Inter-Domain SURFNET CA*net4 StarLight GigaPoP IWIRE GMPLS Agent Intra-Domain GMPLS OMNInet GMPLS Agent LightGate

13. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago 2. Flexible Lambda Provisioning Objectives Framework to support e-science (optional e-commerce) applications with a diverse range of throughput and traffic requirements. Current Features –Single-Lambda Applications (Gb applications) Lambda-switched path or lightpath –Multiple Applications per Lambda (Kb/Mb applications) DEITI (Dynamic Ethernet Intelligent Transit Interface) to encapsulate logical label-switched paths within a lightpath. Future Implementations –Multi-Lambda Applications (Tb applications) Optical inverse-multiplexing scheme. –Bursty Applications DASOBS (Dynamic Adaptive Slotted Optical Burst Switching) to support bursty and variable-rate traffic requirements.

14. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Flexible Lambda Provisioning Architecture Integrated Control Plane - Resource Discovery - Path Selection - Path Management Signaling Transport Associated Inband IP/MPLS Label & Lambda Switched Optical Burst Switched Optical Inverse Multiplexed Kilobit/Megabit Gigabit Bursty Terabit IP/MPLS DWDM IP/MPLS DWDM Variable-switched User Planes Application Signaling Protocols Application

15. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago 3. User-Empowered Ad-hoc Sharing Objectives User-Empowered Ad-hoc Sharing –Users own, control and manage lightpath objects (fibers, lambdas, optical cross-connects, etc.). –Enable users or organizations to advertise portions or all of their lightpath objects to other users when not in use. Distributed Control Plane over Lightpath Objects –Enables rapid sharing and provisioning of lightpath objects across multiple independent management domains. –Enable dynamic configuration of optical-VPN. Object Oriented Networking Architecture –Object Model: defines how lightpath objects are distributed across a heterogeneous environment. –Reference Model: defines interactions among lightpath objects.

16. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago User-Empowering via Distributed Control Plane UNI (Signalling) Signaling Middleware Transport Middleware Signaling Middleware Transport Middleware UNI (Signalling) Control AS 1 AS 2 AS 3 User Organization A Lambdas owned by User Organization A Lambdas owned by User Organization B User Organization B

17. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago 4. LambdaGrid Middleware Objective Grid Based –Computation Grid –Communication Grid: Electrical & Optical Domains Integrated Signaling Middleware –Computation provisioning over Grid/Globus Toolkit Globus core services (resource allocation, authentication security and meta- computing directory service, etc.). –Communication provisioning over optical backbone GMPLS for intra-domain and OBGP for inter-domain. Adaptive User Middleware –Dynamic Adaptive QoS Control Resource Adaptation (CPU, Bandwidth, etc.) Service Adaptation –Measurement and Instrumentation

18. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago LambdaGrid Architecture with Intelligent Quanta Middleware e.g. Globus High-Level Services (Resource Management, Distributed Computing ) Non-AssociatedAssociated Inter-Cluster Signaling Transport Intra-Cluster Signaling Transport Inter-Cluster User Transport Intra-Cluster User Transport e.g. Myrinet Optical Network Infrastructure Application Toolkits ODIN LightGate Computation Integrated Signaling Communication Intelligent Signaling e.g. Globus Core Services ELECTRA OPTICA Dynamic Adaptive Control Monitoring & Instrumentation Quanta Middleware Flexible Lambda Provisioning

19. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago 5. Robust Optical Networking Objectives Self-Healing –Dynamic Enabling Fast Efficient Re-provisioning (DEFER). –Path Rerouting Synchronization Protocol (PRSP). Reliable Reservation –Robust Fast Reservation Protocol (RFRP). Topology Discovery –Flexible Optical Label Discovery (FOLD).