Optical Networking During the last decade, the Internet Protocol (IP) traffic has exploded, due to the ever-increasing fixed (e.g., VDSL or FH) and mobile (e.g., UMTS or LTE) access networks, as well as to the predominant role of new services such as video over IP, voice over IP or Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications. Consequently, the IP network layer acts as the convergence layer for all data services transported over optical networks, whose main requirement is twofold: on the one side, they must offer a huge bandwidth to cope with the accelerating growth of IP traffic and, to this end, advances in optical technologies are enabling high-capacity networks in the most cost-effective and energy-efficient fashion. On the other side, they must support emerging service needs such as flexible and granular bandwidth provisioning, dynamic bandwidth-on-demand (BoD), multiple levels of service quality (QoS) and service awareness, as well as the required network survivability. The gap between the services/applications requirements and the transport infrastructure is being narrowed through the next-generation network control and services architecture. The goal of the Optical Networking Area (ONA) is the evolution of data transport systems towards intelligent (dynamic, self-star), high-capacity, low-cost, and energy-efficient optical transport networks. This research goal is approached in two generic research lines, namely, optical network control and service management, and optical transmission and subsystems. Validation and demonstration are performed by means of the ADRENALINE testbed, an experimental platform for research in optical networks and systems designed and developed by the CC ONA. Both research lines receive feedback from the experimental performance evaluation and assessment activities carried out in the ADRENALINE testbed, from new developments to exhaustive testing of conceived prototypes. Research and innovation lines The activities of the Optical Networking Area are grouped in two broad research lines that encompass several specific scientific and technological objectives: a) Network control and service management. b) Optical transmission and subsystems. a) Network control and service management focuses on control and service architectures (both distributed and centralized), protocols, traffic engineering algorithms (for provisioning, protection and restoration strategies), system design, and hardware & software developments for dynamic end-to-end QoSenabled services in next generation multi-domain and multi-layer converged optical transport networks. Currently, research work aims at enhancing the intelligence, dynamicity, efficiency, robustness, capacity and cost-effectiveness of different transport network infrastructures such as Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSON), elastic/flex-grid optical networks and connection-oriented packet-optical transport networks (e.g., MPLS-TP/PWE3, PBB-TE) through the control and management provided by Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS), Path Computation Element (PCE) and OpenFlow technologies. This research line encompasses the design, implementation and performance evaluation of dynamic provisioning, protection and restoration strategies applying traffic engineering objectives and employing complementary mechanisms such as the automated topology and resource discovery, the automated resource reservation, on-line (impairment-aware) routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) routing, modulation and spectrum assignment (RMSA) as well as traffic grooming algorithms, dynamic virtual optical network provisioning, and software defined networks.
b) Optical transmission and subsystems is focused on specific physical layer and transmission aspects of optical communications, aiming at investigating, designing and implementing novel adaptive and power/spectral efficient optical transmission systems for high-capacity transport networks. The purpose of this activity is to study advanced modulation formats and flexible technologies, as well as suitable techniques for the mitigation of transmission impairments and the enhancement of system performance enabling network elasticity in the data plane. Specifically, multicarrier modulation techniques, and in particular OFDM, are investigated for software-defined optical transmission based on direct detection and coherent schemes. The objective is to furnish cost-effective solutions for flexible, highcapacity optical networks, optimizing the use of the existing infrastructure and the available resources. Group Members
Ongoing Projects P.01 BONE. Building the Future Optical Network in Europe: The e-photon/one Network. FP7- ICT-216863.European Commission. P.02 STRONGEST. Scalable Tunable and Resilient Optical Networks Guaranteeing Extremelyhigh Speed Transport. FP7-ICT-247674. European Commission. P.03 TIGER2. Together IP, GMPLS and Ethernet Reconsidered II. TSI-020400-2010-16. Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism (MINE- TUR). P.04 100GET. 100 Gbit/s Carrier-Grade Ethernet Transport Technologies. TSI-020400-2010-92. Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism (MINETUR). P.05 DORADO. Design and evaluation of intelligent optical networks based on hybrid nodes with Ethernet and wavelength switching. TEC2009-07995. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). P.06 FIERRO. Future Internet: Efficiency in Highperformance networks. TEC2010-11250-E. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). P.07 SGR ONA. Suport Grups de Recerca Optical Networking. 2009 SGR 1438. Autonomous Government of Catalonia (AGAUR). P.08 SILVIA. Intelligent Services for Advanced Internet Validation. 2010 REGIO00008. Autonomous Government of Catalonia (AGAUR). P.09 ENERGOS. Tecnologías para la gestión automatizada e inteligente de las redes de distribución energética del futuro. Industrial Contract. P.10 RAION4. Inter-domain all-optical transport phase 4. Industrial Contract.
Books & Chapters B.01 M. Svaluto, F. Buchali, Optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, Chapter in State of the art on transmission techniques, edited by A. Teixeira, G. M. Tosi Beleffi, 2011, ISBN: 978-94- 007-1766-4.
Journals J.01 C. Pinart, N. Sambo, E. Le Rouzic, F. Cugini, P. Castoldi, Probe schemes for quality-of-transmission-aware wavelength provisioning, IEEE/ OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 87-94, January 2011. J.02 M. Svaluto, Performance analysis of DHTbased optical OFDM using large-size contellations in AWGN, IEEE Communication Letter, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 572-574, May 2011. J.03 L. Liu, T. Tsuritani, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, M. Tsurusawa, I. Morita, Experimental Assessment of a resilient PCE/GMPLS Controlled Translucent Wavelength Switched Optical Network, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol E94-B, Nº 7, pp 1831-1844, July 2011. J.04 L. Liu, R. Casellas, T. Tsuritani, I. Morita, S. Okamoto, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Field and lab trials of PCE-based OSNR aware dynamic restoration in multi-domain GMPLS-enabled translucent WSON, in OSA Optics Express Journal, December 2011. J.05 R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, L. Liu, T. Tsuritani, I. Morita, M. Tsurusawa, Dynamic virtual link mesh topology aggregation in multi-domain translucent WSON with hierarchical-pce, Optics Express Journal, Vol. 19, No. 26, December 2011. J.06 J. Mª Fabrega, B. Schrenk, F. Bonada, J. A. Lazaro, M. Forzati, P.-J. Rigole, J. Prat, Modulated Grating Y-Structure Tunable Laser for lambda -Routed Networks and Optical Access, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol.17, No.6, pp. 1542-1551, December 2011.
International Conferences C.01 R. Muñoz, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, M, Tornatore, A. Pattavina, An Experimental Study on the Effects of Outdated Control Information in GM- PLS-controlled WSON for Shared Path Protection, In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2011), 8-10 February 2011, Bologna (Italy). C.02 B. Schrenk, J. Mª Fabrega, Ch. Kazmierski, J. A. Lázaro, J. Prat, SOA/REAM as Vector Modulator for QAM Upstream, in Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), 6-10 March, 2011, Los Angeles, California (USA). C.03 R. Muñoz, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Vilalta, F. J. Vilchez, J. Vázquez, Virtualizing ADREN- ALINE testbed for deploying dynamic GMPLScontrolled WSON as a service, in Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), 6-10 March, 2011, Los Angeles, California (USA). C.04 F. Bonada, J. Mª Fabrega, B. Schrenk, J. Lázaro, M. Forzati, P. -Jean Rigole, J. Prat, All-Optical Intra-PON Data Routing Between ONUs with a MG-Y Tunable Laser as 2.5 Gbps Burst-Mode Transmitter, in Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), 6-10 March, 2011, Los Angeles, California (USA). C.05 R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Muñoz, B. García-Manrubia, P. Pavón-Marino, M. Klinkowski, D. Careglio, Experimental Study on the Impact of Regenerator Placement Strategies when Dynamically Provisioning in Translucent GMPLS WSON Networks, in Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), 6-10 March, 2011, Los Angeles, California (USA). C.06 R. Casellas, R. Muñoz, R. Martínez, Lab Trial of Multi-Domain Path Computation in GMPLS Controlled WSON Using a Hierarchical PCE, in Proceedings of OFC/NFOEC Conference (OFC2011), 10 March 2011, Los Angeles (USA). C.07 M. Svaluto, J. Mª Fabrega, G. Junyent, Characterization of Fast and Power Efficient Optical OFDM Transmission System Based on Hartley Transform, In proceedings of Conference Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2011), paper CThO2, 1 6 May 2011, Baltimore, Maryland (USA). C.08 G. Parca, M. Svaluto, A. Teixeira, Keeping image processing in the optical domain, in Proceedings of Invited publication at International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics (AOP 2011), 3-7 May 2011, Braga (Protugal). C.09 R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Deployment of Hierarchical Path Computation Elements in Multi-Domain Wavelength Switched Optical Networks, in Proceedings of 7th International Conference on IP + Optical networks (ipop2011), June 2-3 (2011), Kawasaki, Kanagawa (Japan). C.10 R. Muñoz, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, An Open GMPLS-enabled Control Plane testbed for remote development and experimentation of PCE-based path computation algorithms, in Proccedings of Future Network & Mobile Summit, 15 17 June 2011, Warsaw (Poland). C.11 M. Chochol, J. Mª Fabrega, Frequency offset compensation loop for 16-QAM optical coherent systems, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2011), 26-30 June, 2011, Stockholm (Sweden). C.12 J. Mª Fabrega, M. Svaluto, G. Junyent, Constant Envelope Coherent Optical OFDM Based on Fast Hartley Transform, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2011), 26-30 June, 2011, Stockholm (Sweden).
C.13 A. Bukva, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Enhanced Dynamic VNT configuration in GM- PLS Controlled Ethernet over WSON with timerbased lightpath holding time, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2011), 26-30 June, 2011, Stockholm (Sweden). C.14 M. Svaluto, J. Mª Fabrega, L. Nadal, G. Junyent, FHT-Based Architectures for Multicarrier Modulation in Direct Detection and Coherent Optical Systems, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (IC- TON 2011), 26-30 June, 2011, Stockholm (Sweden). C.15 L. Nadal, M. Svaluto, J. Mª Fabrega, G. Junyent, Comparison of Peak Power Reduction Techniques in Optical OFDM Systems Based on FFT and FHT, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2011), 26-30 June, 2011, Stockholm (Sweden). C.16 R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Muñoz, R. Vilalta, Requirements and Enhancements for the Evolution of the GMPLS Control Plane of the ADREN- ALINE testbed to support Multi-Layer (MPLS-TP/ WSON) Capabilities, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2011), 26-30 June, 2011, Stockholm (Sweden). C.17 R. Vilalta, R. Muñoz, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, Design and performance evaluation of a GMPLS-enabled MPLS-TP/PWE3 node with integrated 10Gbps tunable DWDM transponders, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2011), July 4-6 2011, Cartagena (Spain). C.18 A. Bukva, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, A dynamic online path computation algorithm for VNT configuration in GMPLS controlled multilayer (Ethernet/WSON) network, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2011), July 4-6 2011, Cartagena (Spain). C.19 A. Bukva, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Evaluation of Multi-Layer (Ethernet/WSON) GMPLS-Based Path Computation Policies for Dynamic VNT Configuration, in Proceedings of 16th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC 2011), 20-22 July 2011, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). C.20 R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Muñoz, Lab Trial of a GMPLS controlled MPLS-TP Packet Transport Network with Source/PCE Path Computatuions, in Proceedings of 37th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2011), 18-22 September 2011, Geneve (Switzerland). C.21 R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, L. Liu, T. Tsuritani, I. Morita, M. Tsurusawa, Dynamic Virtual Link Mesh Topology Aggregation in Multi-Domain Translucent WSON with Hierarchical-PCE, in Proceedings of 37th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2011), 18-22 September 2011, Geneve (Switzerland). C.22 A. Pages, R. Casellas, J. Perelló, R. Martínez, S. Spadaro, R. Muñoz, Experimental Evaluation of a Full-Meshed Domain Abstraction Design Model for Reduced State Information Dissemination in Multi-domain PCE-based WSONs, in Proceedings of 37th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2011), 18-22 September 2011, Geneve (Switzerland). C.23 L. Liu, R. Casellas, T. Tsuritani, I. Morita, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Experimental Investigation of PCE-based Path Computation for OSNR-aware Dynamic Restoration in GMPLS-enabled Multi-domain Translucent WSON, in Proceedings of 37th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2011), 18-22 September 2011, Geneve (Switzerland).
C.24 R. Muñoz, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, Dynamic Distributed Spectrum Allocation in GMPLS controlled Elastic Optical Networks, in Proceedings of 37th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2011), 18-22 September 2011, Geneve (Switzerland). C.25 A. Bukva, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, A dynamic path computation algorithm for e2e dedicated protection in a GMPLS controlled multilayer (Ethernet/WSON) network, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM 2011), 5-7 October 2011, Budapest (Hungary).
National Conferences C.26 F. Bonada, J. Mª Fabrega, B. Schrenk, V. Polo, M. Forzati, P.-J. Rigole, J. Prat and J. A. Lazaro, Recent Advances in Burst Mode Communications for Extended Fiber-To-The-Home Networks, in Proceedings of VII Reunión Nacional de Optoelectrónica (OPTOEL 2011), 29-30 June 2012, Santander (Spain). C.27 A. Bukva, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Evaluation of a dynamic path computation algorithm in a GMPLS controlled multi-layer (Ethernet/WSON) network, in Proceedings of the Red FIERRO Workshop, 7-8 July 2011, Cartagena (Spain).