Demonstration of a Fully Functional Optical Burst Switched Network with Application Layer Resource Reservation Capability

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Zervas, G.; Nejabati, R.; Qin, Y.; Simeonidou, D.; OMahony, M.; Reed, M. (Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK)
Campi, A.; Callegati, F. (Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems, University of Bologna Via Venezia, Cesena, ITALY)
Yu, S. (Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK)

Abstract:
We demonstrate on-demand application layer resource reservation over a fully functional applicationaware OBS test-bed. This is achieved by hardware implementation and integration of application layer Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the OBS Just-In-Time (JIT) signaling.