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SDON- Software Defined Optical Networks

Jagdeep Singh
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
Ontario, Canada
Student number- 8647574
Group 10 Gurpreet Singh Sethi
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
Ontario, Canada
Student number- 300025014
Group 10
Aditya Aneja
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
Ontario, Canada
Student number- 8854493
Group 10 Saif Ali Khan Pathan
Department of System Engineering and Computer Science
Carleton University
Ontario, Canada
Student number- 101054499
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In the end the performance of software Defined Optical Networks is evaluated.

Keywords- Software Defined Networks, Optical Networks.

1. Introduction

The major goal of Software Defined networks is separate the control plane and the data plane and passing the control to a SDN controller for the programmability of the network resources. The SDN architecture consist of basically 3 layers- (i) the infrastructure layer (ii) the control layer and (iii) the application layer (from top to bottom). The connecting interface between the control and application layer is termed as the NorthBound Interface while between the control layer and the infrastructure layer is termed as SouthBound Interface. The SouthBound Interface uses the Open Flow Protocol to communicate with the lower level switches. The Controller is the main intelligent device present in the architecture that offers a centralized view of the whole network [1].

Fig 1- SDN architecture

Optical Networks provide a way of transmitting the user signal in an optical medium by converting them into light signals. Recent advances in the optical networking technologies enables the transport networks to be more intelligent and allows more flexibility in multiplexing and switching functions [2].

1.1 SDN Controlled Optical Networks

With the use of SDN control to the photonic level of operation in the optical communication allows more flexible support to photonic components that supports optical networking

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