Title
Virtual network embedding and reconfiguration in elastic optical networks
Abstract
Recent innovations in Network Virtualization and Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) enable flexible deployment of optical networks as a service. However, one open challenge is how to embed Virtual Optical Network (VON) requests onto the physical substrate network to maximize the sharing of physical resources, which is the so called Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem. EONs are prone to the fragmentation of spectral resources during the process of routing and spectrum allocation. The fragmentation of spectral resources in the substrate fiber links may lead to the blocking of incoming virtual network requests. This degrades the utilization of the physical resources of the Infrastructure Providers and also, decreases the revenue of the Service Providers. In this paper, we propose a novel virtual network embedding algorithm called Alignment and Consecutiveness-aware Virtual Network Embedding (ACT-VNE), which takes into account the spectrum alignment and relative loss in spectrum consecutiveness when mapping virtual nodes/links onto the physical substrate nodes/links. We also propose a min-max reconfiguration scheme called Relative Consecutiveness Loss-aware and Misalignment-aware Virtual Network Reconfiguration (RCLM-VNR) that minimizes relative consecutiveness loss and maximizes alignment with adjacent links when reconfiguring the virtual network. Simulation results show that ACT-VNE and RCLM-VNR yield a lower blocking probability and a higher link utilization ratio, which leads to better utilization of the physical resources and increased revenue.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037128
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
act-vne,spectrum alignment,spectral resource fragmentation,eons,frequency allocation,physical substrate network,relative consecutiveness loss,rclm-vnr,spectrum allocation,virtual optical network,routing process,optical fibre networks,virtual network embedding algorithm,blocking probability,alignment and consecutiveness-aware virtual network embedding,substrate fiber links,link utilization ratio,virtualisation,infrastructure providers,relative consecutiveness loss-aware and misalignment-aware virtual network reconfiguration,elastic optical networks,network virtualization,von,vne problem,telecommunication network routing,service providers,virtual nodes-links mapping,bandwidth,virtualization,internet,computational modeling
Virtualization,Virtual network,Computer science,Network architecture,Computer network,Real-time computing,Bandwidth (signal processing),Frequency allocation,ARPANET,Network virtualization,Control reconfiguration,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2334-0983
1
0.35
References 
Authors
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sunny Shakya1112.35
Nabina Pradhan210.35
Xiaojun Cao353074.55
Zilong Ye47811.97
Chunming Qiao53971400.49