An inter-domain routing scheme for software-defined optical network

Abstract

Software-Defined Optical Network (SDON) incorporates the technologies of Software-Defined Network (SDN) into the comprehensive solutions of traditional optical network, which greatly improves the weaknesses of the traditional optical network, including inadequate enforcement of control, inefficient utilization of resource and so on. Based on the improved SDON architecture, this paper did lots of research and experiments on the inter-domain routing technologies of multi-domain SDON. Results show that the SDON architecture can effectively solve the routing problems among the traditional multi-domain optical networks.