B5G-OPEN @ OFC2022 #1
“An SDN control plane for multiband networks exploiting a PLI-aware routing engine”
by Ramon Casellas, Evangelos Kosmatos, Andrew Lord, Chris Matrakidis, Ricardo Martínez, Dimitris Uzunidis, Ricard Vilalta, Alexandros Stavdas, Raül Muñoz – CTTC, OpenLightComm Europe, British Telecom.
Abstract: We report the design of a TAPI SDN control plane for multi-band networks with externalized PLI-aware RMSA. We detail the architecture, data model extensions, algorithms and the implementation and validation in an emulated BT 22-ROADM network.