WAN virtualization and dynamic end-to-end bandwidth provisioning using SDN

Adrian Lara, Byrav Ramamurthy, Eric Pouyoul, Inder Monga
March 2015
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Abstract

We evaluate a WAN-virtualization framework in terms of delay and scalability and demonstrate that adding a virtual layer between the physical topology and the end-user brings significant advantages and tolerable delays.

Type
Conference paper
Publication
2015 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)
Bandwidth Network Topology Optical Switches Telecommunication Network Topology SDN Software Defined Networking Wide Area Networks Virtualization Delays Dynamic End-to-End Bandwidth Provisioning Physical Topology Virtual Layer WAN-Virtualization Framework Wide Area Network
Byrav Ramamurthy
Byrav Ramamurthy
Professor & PI

My research areas include optical and wireless networks, peer-to-peer networks for multimedia streaming, network security and telecommunications. My research work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA, AT&T Corporation, Agilent Tech., Ciena, HP and OPNET Inc.