8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Unified Control System for Heterogeneous Networks with Software Defined Networking (SDN)

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694700,
        author={Yongli Zhao and Jie Zhang and Lingnan Gao and Hui Yang},
        title={Unified Control System for Heterogeneous Networks with Software Defined Networking (SDN)},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2013},
        month={11},
        keywords={optical networks; ip network; datacenter; unified control; sdn; openflow},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694700}
    }
    
  • Yongli Zhao
    Jie Zhang
    Lingnan Gao
    Hui Yang
    Year: 2013
    Unified Control System for Heterogeneous Networks with Software Defined Networking (SDN)
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694700
Yongli Zhao1,*, Jie Zhang1, Lingnan Gao1, Hui Yang1
  • 1: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
*Contact email: yonglizhao@bupt.edu.cn

Abstract

Driven by various broadband applications, data center has become one of the most important service resources, connected by IP and optical networks. Then how to use the service resource and network resource together effectively will become the research focus. Towards realizing this goal, this paper proposes a unified control system for heterogeneous networks, which is implemented with Software Defined Networking (SDN) enabled by OpenFlow protocol. Data center, IP network and optical network resources can be abstracted as unified resource interface. NOX based controller can make full use of these resources, and provide the user with different kind of services. Remote demonstration is first accessed and presented with large scale multi-layer and multi-domain networks.