Segment Routing based In-Band Network Telemetry in IPv6 over Optical Networks

With the rise of automated network operations, network telemetry has become increasingly important. Optical networks play a key role in modern communication systems because of their high bandwidth, low latency, and low loss. To better manage and monitor Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over optical networks, programmable data planes (PDP) are used to achieve flexible data collection. Meanwhile, to solve the scalability problem of the control plane in the software-defined network (SDN), segment routing over IPv6 (SRv6) is introduced. By programming the source node on the path, SRv6 wisely instructs packets to collect the appropriate telemetry data at the segment nodes to balance the trade-off between bandwidth usage and monitoring coverage. To efficiently achieve the observability of IPv6 over optical networks, we model the system and propose an SRv6-based in-band network telemetry (INT) algorithm. Simulation results verify the performance of our algorithm.