Software Defined Optical Networks (SDONs): A Comprehensive Survey

By Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu, Anu Mercian, Michael P. Mcgarry, Martin Reisslein, Wolfgang Kellerer. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2015

314 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact with controllers to implement network services, such as network transport with quality of service. SDN facilitates the virtualization of network functions so that multiple virtual networks can operate over a given installed physical network infrastructure. Due to the specific characteristics of optical (photonic) communication components and the high optical transmission capacities, SDN-based optical networking poses particular challenges, but holds also great potential. In this article, we comprehensively survey studies that examine the SDN paradigm in optical networks; in brief, we survey the area of software defined optical networks (SDONs). We mainly organize the SDON studies into studies focused on the infrastructure layer, the control layer, and the application layer. Moreover, we cover SDON studies focused on network virtualization, as well as SDON studies focused on the orchestration of multilayer and multidomain networking. Based on the survey, we identify open challenges for SDONs and outline future directions.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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3. Keqiu Li
4. Renchao Xie
5. Wei Ni
6. Jun-feng Xie
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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “wireless networks [77]–[83] optical networks [3], [84]–[86], as well as the Internet of Things (IoT) [87], [88], cyberphysical systems [89], and smart cities [90], [91].”
• A Survey of Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Software Defined Networking (SDN): Research Issues and Challenges (2019, methodology): “To solve the problem, Software Defined Optical Network (SDON) [55], [242] has been proposed to enable the networking applications to use underlying optical network infrastructure dynamically and efficiently, by leveraging the ability of logically centralized control in SDN.”
• On Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Survey of the Emerging 5G Network Edge Cloud Architecture and Orchestration (2017, unknown): “The SDN paradigm can enable a simple and agile solution for providing network connectivity and service management towards a MEC platform or between MEC edges across a heterogeneous radio [104] and over edge-to-edge diverse transport networks [105], [106].”
• How Can Heterogeneous Internet of Things Build Our Future: A Survey (2018, background): “Defined Networks (SDN) [124], [125] have been proposed to implement different data transfer between HNEs.”
• Anatomy of Threats to the Internet of Things (2019, background): “Conclusively, it is the SDN controller that monitors and manages all aspects of the network including security, and the interface between SDN applications and the hardware components [174].”
• Indoor Positioning Systems Based on Visible Light Communication: State of the Art (2017, background): “Due to the high transmission capacities, optical wireless networks play an important role in our modern information technology [12].”
• How Can Edge Computing Benefit From Software-Defined Networking: A Survey, Use Cases, and Future Directions (2017, background): “In the case of SDON, standardization of this interface may improve the operations to a greater level since an optical network may cover a large area consisting multiple domains [221].”
• Integrating Renewable Energy Resources into the Smart Grid: Recent Developments in Information and Communication Technologies (2018, unknown): “Software Defined Optical Networks (SDONs) [53] are another future research direction where optical networks are used for reliable communication in the SG system.”