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Transport network orchestration for end-to-end multilayer provisioning across heterogeneous SDN/OpenFlow and GMPLS/PCE control domains

Publicated to: JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY. 33 (8): 1540-1548 - 2015-04-15 33(8), DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2393634

Authors:

Munoz R; Vilalta R; Casellas R; Martinez R; Francois F; Channegowda M; Hammad A; Peng S; Nejabati R; Simeonidou D; Yoshikane N; Tsuritani T; Lopez V; Autenrieth A
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Affiliations

ADVA Optical Networking SE - Author
Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya - Author
KDDI R&D Laboratories - Author
Telefónica - Author
University of Bristol - Author
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Abstract

© 2015 IEEE. A multidomain optical transport network composed of heterogeneous optical transport technologies (e.g., flexi/fixed-grid optical circuit switching and optical packet switching) and control plane technologies (e.g., centralized OpenFlow or distributed GMPLS) does not naturally interoperate, and a network orchestration mechanism is required. A network orchestrator allows the composition of end-to-end network service provisioning across multidomain optical networks comprising different transport and control plane technologies. Software-defined networking (SDN) is a key technology to address this requirement, since the separation of control and data planes makes the SDN a suitable candidate for end-to-end provisioning service orchestration across multiple domains with heterogeneous control and transport technologies. This paper presents two different network orchestration's architectures based on the application-based network operations (ABNO) which is being defined by IETF based on standard building blocks. Then, we experimentally assesses in the international testbed of the STRAUSS project, an ABNO-based network orchestrator for end-to-end multi-layer (OPS and Flexi-grid OCS) and multidomain provisioning across heterogeneous control domains (SDN/OpenFlow and GMPLS/Stateful PCE) employing dynamic domain abstraction based on virtual node aggregation.
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Keywords

Control planeFlexi-grid optical networksGeneralized multiprotocol label switching (gmpls)OpenflowPath computation element (pce)Software defined network (sdn)Stateful pceStateless pce

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position 20/90, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Optics.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 2.64, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-04, the following number of citations:

  • Scopus: 62
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-04:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 24.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 24 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 9.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Gran Bretanya.

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