Optical FlowBroker: Load-Balancing in Software-Defined Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Dan Marconett, Lei Liu, S. J. Ben Yoo · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2014
We present a new OpenFlow control architecture, referred to as Optical FlowBroker, for multi-domain software-defined optical networks. The hierarchical brokers improve scalability and inter-domain global coordination, while allowing domain controllers to manage intra-domain forwarding decisions.