Network Description Language -- Semantic Web For Hybrid Networks
Paola Grosso, F. Dijkstra, Jeroen van der Ham, C.T.A.M. de Laat · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2007
NDL – Network Description Language – is an RDF-based ontology for hybrid networks that facilitates the description, the visualization and the provisioning of lightpaths. NDL contains schemas to describe the technology-independent topology and the operational component at the various technology layers of an hybrid network. NDL draws on the semantic web idea of computer-understandable distributed data to provide a common inter-domain vocabulary to hybrid networks’ administrators and control planes.