Reliable Control and Management Plane Design in Multi-Domain Optical Networks

In this paper a multi-domain optical service environment is envisioned to demonstrate the role of the distributed control plane and management processes based on different standardization approaches. Emerging reliability requirements are discussed and the performance of optical networks is investigated by simulations on several control and/or management failure cases. The simulation results are extended towards multi-domain environments using practical considerations to provide simple analytical models on connection provisioning delay.