Application-Centric, Energy-Efficient Network Architecture ACTION, Based on Virtual Optical Slice Core and Deterministic Optical Access Network

Abstract

The Internet traffic is forecasted to grow at a compound annual rate of 21 % from 2013 to 2018, according to surveys carried out by Cisco [1]. Network resources are significantly over-provisioned in today's networks, and it is quite common to see link utilization in the 30-40% range [2]. Additionally, the multi-media services have widely divergent bandwidth and Quality of Experience (QoE) requirements. Unfortunately, the huge transmission capacity will increase the power consumption of network equipment [3]. Applications Coordinated with Transport, Internet Protocol and Optical Networks (ACTION) [4] has been proposed to realize a multi-QoE, application-centric, and highly energy-efficient network that leverages flexible elastic optical network technologies [5][6][7]. This paper provides key network technologies for realizing the ACTION, which are a virtual optical slice core network and a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)-based deterministic active optical access network.

A survey of multi-layer network optimization

“…In [26] the authors propose a network where traffic is monitored at the ingress point to determine if the required Quality of Service is met. If it is not, traffic is moved between different "QoS slices" until the desired QoS is achieved.…”

A Dynamic Restructuring Algorithm Based on Flexible PON Slices

“…Yin et al proposed an end-to-end dynamic slicing scheme based on prediction in Fi-Wi networks, which uses a double exponential smoothing algorithm to predict traffic in advance, and allocates resources for multiple slices according to the predicted results [13]. Later, with the deepening and expansion of research, the outstanding characteristics of network slicing technology in flexible resource management have also been considered in access networks, including wireless access networks [14,15] and fiber access networks [16,17]. Domenico et al proposed a scheme to deploy virtual network function (VNF) chains with heterogeneous requirements in mixed cloud infrastructure, which greatly improved the efficiency of resource utilization and the success rate of VNF chain deployment [14].…”

“…Oriol et al proposed four possible slicing schemes for Radio Access Networks (RANs) for the problem of cutting radio resources, and analyzed their advantages and disadvantages as well as applicable scenarios [15]. Kunitaka et al proposed a dynamic slicing method for an active optical access network, which can guarantee quality of service (QoS) requirements of each user of the access network based on the QoS level of the core network [16]. Hiroyuki et al proposed a dynamic bandwidth allocation scheme for a time-division multiplexing passive optical network (TDM-PON).…”

“…In addition, in order to test the influence of the number of subgraphs on the performance of the algorithms, the number of ONUs is set at 512 and the simulation is carried out for the case of a varying number of OLTs (4,8,16,32,64,128,256). As shown in Figure 6, DRA also achieves better performance than DGA and DONUSA under different OLT numbers.…”