PCE-based scalable dynamic path control for large-scale photonic networks

This paper proposes an inter-domain path control system based on PCE (Path Computation Element) for large-scale photonic networks, especially for a photonic network across over multiple carrier domains. We discuss the overall architecture of multi-domain optical network control system. The system utilizes maximum flow information in path computation and Path Key scheme in signaling, which improve the load-balancing and the confidentiality of the inside information for the route computation and the path provisioning among different carriers. We also provide measured performance results for inter-domain path computation and path setups using global optimization scheme, estimating the path provisioning time at the network scale dependency with the route computation time and the signaling time. As a result, we show its applicability to a 1000-node scale photonic network.