Signaling Architectures and Recovery Time Scaling for Grid Applications in IST Project MUPBED Peter Szegedi, Magyar Telekom Zsolt Lakatos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Jan Späth, Marconi [5] T. Jakab, Zs. Lakatos, “Resilience with Tailored Recovery Time in Switched Optical Networks“, NOC 2003 [6] H. Wang at.al, “A Hardware-Accelerated Implementation of the RSVP-TE Signaling Protocol”, ICC 2004 [7] Chen, Hong, Yao, David D, “Fundamentals of Queuing Networks”, 2001, ISBN 0387951660 [8] OIF-UNI 1.0 Release 2, “User Network Interface (UNI) 1.0 Signaling Specification, Release 2: Common Part” [9] ITU-T G.8080/Y.1304, “Architecture for the Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON)”
ABSTRACT It is now evident to the research community that local computational resources cannot keep up in an economical way with the demands generated by some users/applications. Therefore, distributed computing and the concept of a computational Grid are now emerging. Novel transport network concepts are needed to support such visions and high-speed intelligent optical networking may be the required infrastructure that will enable global Grids. Emerging Utility Grid applications like Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery have strong requirements on the dynamic optical networks connecting the distributed Grid resources. Supporting Grid networking with an Intelligent Optical Network (ION) infrastructure will permit to offer to Utility Grid applications the necessary flexibility with the required Quality of Service (e.g., high bandwidth, reliability, limited delay). Emerging QoS requirements, such as scalable recovery time, highly depend on the ION’s signaling architecture. This article gives simple analytical models for the implementation options of the optical control plane signaling, shows simulation models for different resilience strategies and finally shows some illustrative numerical comparisons to support the aforementioned efforts. This research area is also discussed among others in the European research project MUPBED (“Multi-Partner European Test Beds for Research Networking”).
BIOGRAPHIES Peter Szegedi (
[email protected]) received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2002. Since then he has been working towards the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Telecommunications. He joined to Magyar Telekom in 2002. He is working on the Transport Network Development Department as an R&D Manager. His main research interests include design and analysis of dynamic optical networks especially optical Ethernet architectures, network control and management processes. Zsolt Lakatos (
[email protected]) obtained his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2001. Since then he has been working towards the Ph.D. degree as a research fellow at the network planning group of Department of Telecommunications. He was a visiting researcher for a three months period at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento. His research interests include design of protected optical networks and reliability analysis. Jan Spaeth (
[email protected]) received his Ph.D. from University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2002. In 2001 he joined Marconi. He is leading a team that focuses on network evolution aspects for transport and data networks. He is working in several funded projects on a national and international level. As part of these activities he has been appointed project co-ordinator for the IST project MUPBED in July 2004. He is a member of IEEE and VDE ITG.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work is partly funded by the European Commission under frame contract FP6-511780. The authors thank all the partners of the project consortium for their co-operation and support. REFERENCES [1] Drew Robb: “Disaster Recovery Vs. Business Continuity”, April 28, 2005, www.esecurityplanet.com [2] IST-MUPBED, Deliverable 1.1, “Preliminary Definition of a Reference Architecture for an Intelligent Optical Network Supporting Advanced Applications in Research Environments”, May 2005 [3] http://www.ist-mupbed.org [4] P. Szegedi, “Delay Models for Different UNI Signaling Implementations in the Context of IST Project MUPBED”, ICTON 2005
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