Experimental demonstration of a service oriented labeled optical burst switching network with SIP based service plane

To address the demands of emerging applications or services which require not only the network resources but also the non-network resources, a new optical burst switching (OBS) network scenario is proposed and demonstrated in this paper. This scenario can be referred to as service oriented labeled OBS network, in which a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based service plane is introduced. This service plane can obtain the network and non-network resource information from OBS control plane and computational resource respectively, and is responsible for translating user request, discovering and managing resources through standard SIP messages. By enhancing the functionalities of our labeled OBS test-bed, the feasibility and efficiency of proposed network scenario is successfully verified. As SIP is a standard protocol with flexible session control capability, we believe the proposed scenario is beneficial for promoting the OBS technology to be widely deployed in the future.