4th International IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, Systems

Research Article

Generic Optical Network Provisioning Services to Support Emerging Grid Applications

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550416,
        author={Yufeng Xin and Lina Battestilli and Gigi Karmous-Edwards},
        title={Generic Optical Network Provisioning Services to Support Emerging Grid Applications},
        proceedings={4th International IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, Systems},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={Bandwidth  Circuits  Dynamic scheduling  Electronic mail  Grid computing  Optical fiber networks  Processor scheduling  Protocols  Quality of service  Resource management},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550416}
    }
    
  • Yufeng Xin
    Lina Battestilli
    Gigi Karmous-Edwards
    Year: 2008
    Generic Optical Network Provisioning Services to Support Emerging Grid Applications
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550416
Yufeng Xin1,*, Lina Battestilli1,*, Gigi Karmous-Edwards1,*
  • 1: MCNC, RTP, NC 27709
*Contact email: yxin@mcnc.org, lina@mcnc.org, gigi@mcnc.org

Abstract

Emerging high-end applications require a rich set of network provisioning services that go beyond the traditional source-destination, end-to-end path service. They also require high-bandwidth and high-quality circuit services that only optical networks could offer. In this paper, we first analyze some representative high-end Grid applications and abstract their needed generic set of network provisioning services. Then we provide some preliminary analysis on the routing, resource allocation, and survivability mechanisms of these generic network services. The focus is on the temporal and spatial extensions over the traditional network service definitions. We also introduce our implementation and experimental activities within the Enlightened Computing project and present ongoing research work.