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The Optical Networking Area is interested in creating and developing research cooperation with other parties under the framework of public-funded projects or bilateral cooperation agreements. This research collaboration contemplate the cooperation of the involved institutions for the exchange of know-how, scientific and technological experience of mutual interest. The main objectives are to produce joint journal/magazine papers and contributions to conferences, exchange of researchers, participation in PhD Thesis evaluation boards, signature of cooperation agreements, etc.


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Joint Research activities

In the following, we list the joint research activities detailing the institution or researcher from the external groups, dates, the framework in which the collaboration was or is being done, and the main achieved outcomes:


Ongoing joint activities

GMPLS-based translucent optical networks

  • KDDI R&D Labs (Japan)

Joint activity within the context of the Inter-Domain All-Optical Transport Networks (RAION) project with the KDDI R&D Labs (Japan). The main goal is to investigate on the utilization of efficient algorithms for translucent GMPLS networks. The following publications have been produced in the context of such a collaboration:

  • R. Casellas, R. Martinez, R. Munoz, L. Liu, T. Tsuritani, M. Tsurusawa, Lab-Trial of Multi-Domain Lightpath Provisioning with PCE Path Computation combining BRPC and Path-Key Topology Confidentiality in GMPLS Translucent WSON networks, 36th European Conference on Optical Communication 2010 (ECOC 2010) Torino, Italy, on September 19-23, 2010.
  • L. Liu, T. Tsuritani, R. Casellas, R. Martinez, R. Muñoz, M. Tsurusawa, Experimental Demonstration and Comparison of Distributed and Centralized Multi-domain Resilient Translucent WSON , 36th European Conference on Optical Communication 2010 (ECOC 2010) Torino, Italy, on September 19-23, 2010.
  • L. Liu, T. Tsuritani, R. Casellas and M. Tsurusawa, Demonstration of a Resilient PCE/GMPLS Controlled Translucent Optical Network, accepted for the 15th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2010), Sapporo Convention Center, Hokkaido, Japan, July 5-9, 2010
  • R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Muñoz and T. Tsuritani, Experimental Study and Assessment of the Link Distance Impact in an OSNR-based IRWA Algorithm in GMPLS-enabled Translucent WSON networks, 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2010), invited WAOR paper, June 27th - July 1st, 2010, Munich, Germany.
  • L. Liu, T. Tsuritani, R. Casellas and M. Tsurusawa, Interoperability Investigation of PCE and Extended GMPLS Controller for Translucent Wavelength Switched Optical Networks, 6th International Conference on IP Over Optical (iPOP 2010), accepted for oral presentation in June, 2010, at NTT Mushashino Center, Tokyo, Japan.
  • R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Muñoz and T. Tsuritani, Experimental Translucent-oriented Routing for Dynamic Lightpath Provisioning in GMPLS-enabled Wavelength Switched Optical Networks, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1241-1255, April 2010.
  • R. Casellas, T. Tsuritani, S. Okamoto, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Experimental Field-Trial of Multi-domain PCE-based Path Computation for OSNR-aware GMPLS enabled translucent WSON, In Proceedings of 35th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), 19-24 September 2009, Vienna (Austria).
  • R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Muñoz, T. Tsuritani, Experimental Evaluation of the Link Cost Impact in OSNR-based IRWA algorithms for GMPLS-enabled Translucent WSON, Invited paper at 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2009), June 28-July 2, 2009, Island of São Miguel, Azores (Portugal).
  • R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Muñoz, T. Tsuritani, T. Otani, Experimental GMPLS routing for dynamic provisioning in translucent wavelength switched optical networks, in Proc. Optical Fiber Communications Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2009). March 22-26 2009. San Diego (USA).


Optical signal processing

  • University of Aveiro (Portugal)

Joint activity with the Optical Communications Group of the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. This activity is focused on investigating the use of all-optical transforms for image processing in the optical domain. Result of this collaboration is the joint publication:

  • G. Parca, M. Svaluto Moreolo, A. Teixeira, Keeping image processing in the optical domain, Invited paper at International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics (AOP 2011), 3 - 7 May 2011, Braga, Portugal.


  • University Roma Tre (Italy)

Joint activity under the framework of the FP7 ICT NoE BONE (2007-2009) with the Optical Communications Group of University Roma Tre. This activity is focused on investigating the suitability of using transforms in both all-optical and electrical signal processing for optical networks. Results of this collaboration are the three joint publications:

  • M. Svaluto Moreolo, V. Sacchieri, G. Cincotti, Signal processing based on trigonometric transforms for high-speed optical networks, Invited paper at 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2009), June 28-July 2, 2009, Island of São Miguel, Azores, Portugal.
  • M. Svaluto Moreolo, G. Cincotti, Fiber Hartley Transform and Optical Indirect Computation of Discrete Cosine Transform, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 1338-1343, May 2010.
  • M. Svaluto Moreolo, V. Sacchieri, G. Cincotti, G. Junyent, Trigonometric transforms for high-speed optical networks: all-optical architectures and optical OFDM, (Invited Paper), Journal of Networks, special issue "All-Optically Routed Networks", vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 1248-1253, Nov. 2010.


IRWA and regenerator placement strategies in GMPLS Translucent WSON

  • UPC (Spain), UPCT (Spain) and NIT (Poland)

Joint activity under the he framework of the FP7 ICT NoE BONE (2007-2009) project with the CCABA group of the UPC (Spain), the UPCT (Spain) and the NIT (Poland). The purpose of this joint activity is to study efficient off-line regenerator placement strategies combined with on-line IRWA algorithms within GMPLS-enabled translucent WSON. One joint publication has been produced so far:

  • 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, accepted for publication at at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), March 6-10, 2011, Los Angeles, California, USA.


GMPLS-based RWA algorithms for optical protection/restoration

  • SSSUP (Italy), DTU (Denmark)

Joint activity under the framework of the FP7 ICT NoE BONE project with the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy) and the Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Denmark). This Joint Activity is focused on GMPLS-based protection and restoration recovery schemes for Wavelength-Routed Networks (WRN), taking into account the two major challenges of wavelength-routed networks, namely, the wavelength continuity constraint and the degradation of the optical signal quality. This JA is organized in specific joint works, namely:


  • Topic 1 - Shared Path Protection (SPP) in GMPLS networks with limited wavelength conversion:
    • The main objective of this joint sub-activity is to investigate novel GMPLS-enabled Shared-path protection (SPP) path computation algorithms and reservation protocols along with the required extensions to the current GMPLS RSVP-TE protocol for wavelength-routed optical networks with limited wavelength conversion, that is, with scarce wavelength converters (WC). The main outputs of the collaboration is:
      • A.V. Manolova, A. Giorgetti, I. Cerutti, N. Sambo, N. Andriolli, R. Munoz, R. Martinez, R. Casellas, S. Ruepp, P. Castoldi, Wavelengths and Regenerators Sharing in GMPLS-controlled WSONs, in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2010), December 6-10, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA.
      • A.V. Manolova, S. Ruepp, R. Munoz, R. Casellas, R. Martinez, I. Cerutti, N. Sambo, A. Giorgetti, N. Andriolli, P. Castoldi, Shared Path Protection in GMPLS Networks with Limited Wavelength Conversion Capability, in Proc of the 11th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2010), June 13-16, 2010, Richardson, Texas, USA.


  • Topic 2 - Restoration in GMPLS-based Wavelength Switched Optical Networks with Limited Wavelength Converters:
    • The aim of the joint work is the assessment of the benefits of wavelength conversion during the restoration of lightpaths disrupted by a single-link failure in a GMPLS-based WSON. In addition, the use of an intelligent wavelength selection strategy is evaluated in the presence of wavelength converters. The main outputs of the collaboration is:
      • N. Sambo, I. Cerutti, A. Giorgetti, N. Andriolli, P. Castoldi, R. Muñoz, S. Ruepp, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, A.V. Manolova, Restoration in GMPLS-based Wavelength Switched Optical Networks with Limited Wavelength Converters, in Proc. of Photonics in Switching conference (PS2009), September 15-19 2009, Pisa (Italy).


Applications of low-cost tunable laser for access

  • UPC (Spain), ACREO (Sweden) and Syntune/IGNIS (Sweden)

Joint activity with the Optical Communications Group of Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, the optical networking group of ACREO and the leading laser manufacturer Syntune/IGNIS. This activity is focused on investigating the suitability of next generation tunable lasers for its use in access networks while characterizing their tunability performances and improving their direction modulation. Results of this collaboration is the joint publication:

  • J. M. Fabrega, B. Schrenk, F. Bonada, J. A. Lázaro, M. Forzati, P.-J. Rigole, J. Prat Modulated Grating Y-Structure Tunable Laser for Wavelength-Routed Networks and Optical Access, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol.17, no.6, pp.1542-1551, Nov.-Dec. 2011
  • F. Bonada, J. M. Fabrega, B. Schrenk, J. A. Lázaro, M. Forzati, P.-J. Rigole and 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 OFC/NFOEC 2011, March 2011, Los Angeles (USA), paper JWA74


Due joint activities

GMPLS-enabled Restoration in multi-domain WSON

  • UPC (Spain)

Joint activity under the framework of the FP7 ICT NoE BONE (2007-2009) project with the GCO group of the UPC (Spain). The purpose of this joint activity is to expeirmentally study, validate and evaluate multi-domain restoration strategies within GMPLS transparent WSON. Two joint publication have been produced so far:

  • R. Martínez, R. Casellas, L. Velasco, F. Agraz, R. Muñoz, S. Spadaro, Experimental validation of end-to-end GMPLS-enabled restoration in multi-domain transparent WSON, in Proc. Optical Fiber Communications Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2010). March 21-25 2010. San Diego (USA).
  • L. Velasco, F. Agraz, R. Martínez, R. Casellas, S. Spadaro, R. Muñoz, G. Junyent, GMPLS-based Multi-domain Restoration: Analysis, Strategies, Policies and Experimental Assessment, accepted in IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 427-441, July 2010.


RWA and regenerator placement in semi-transparent networks

  • UPC (Spain)

Joint activity under the framework of the FP7 ICT NoE BONE (2007-2009) project with the CBA group of the UPC (Spain). The purpose of this joint activity is to study and evaluate both off-line regenerator placement and on-line regenerator allocation strategies in the context of GMPLS translucent optical networks. One joint publication has been produced so far:

  • E. Marin-Tordera, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, R. Casellas, J. Solé-Pareta, Improving IA-RWA Algorithms in Translucent Networks by Regenerator Allocation, Invited paper at 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2009), June 28-July 2, 2009, Island of São Miguel, Azores, Portugal.
  • UPC (Spain) and Politecnico de Milano (Italy)

Joint activity with the CRAAX group of the UPC (Spain) and the Telecommunication Network Group from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), led by Prof. Achille Pattavina. The purpose of this joint activity is to study and evaluate the impact of inaccurate physical infomation in on-line regenerator allocation strategies within GMPLS translucent optical networks. One joint publication has been produced so far:

  • E. Marin-Tordera, M. Yannuzzi, X. Masip-Bruin, S. Sánchez-López, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, R. Casellas, G. Maier, The Effects of Optimized Regenerator Allocation in Translucent Networks under Inaccurate Physical information, in Proc. of 14th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2010), Jan 31-Feb 3, 2010, Kyoto, Japan.


Recovery routing algorithms within WSON networks

  • UPC (Spain)

Joint research collaboration with the CRAAX group of the UPC. This activity studies and investigates advanced routing algorithms to provide optimal recovery strategies within WSON networks. One joint publication has been produced so far:

  • M. German, A. Castro, X. Masip-Bruin, M. Yannuzzi, R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Muñoz, On the challenges of finding two link-disjoint lightpaths of minimum total weight across an optical network, accepted for publication in the 14th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC 2009). Valladolid (Spain), June 9-12, 2009.


Effects of Outdated Control Information in GMPLS-enabled Optical Networks

  • POLIMI (Italy)

Joint activity under the framework of the FP7 ICT NoE BONE (2007-2009) project with the Telecommunication Network Group from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), led by Prof. Achille Pattavina. This activity aims at investigating the the effects of delays in control-information distribution on dynamic routing performance. Two joint publications have been produced:

  • R. Muñoz, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, M, Tornatore and A. Pattavina An Experimental Study on the Effects of Outdated Control Information in GMPLS-controlled WSON for Shared Path Protection, accepted for publication at 15th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2011), February 8-10, 2011, Bologna, Italy.
  • M. Tornatore, F. De Grandi, R. Muñoz, R. Martinez, R. Casellas, A. Pattavina, Effects of Outdated Control Information in Control-Plane-Enabled Optical Networks with Path Protection, to appear in the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) in June 2009.


Scalability of Path Computation Elements

  • UST-IKR Stuttgart (Germany)

Joint activity under the framework of the FP7 ICT NoE BONE (2007-2009) project with the researcher S. Gunreben (Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering (IKR) University of Stuttgart). The main outputs of the collaboration are:

  • S. Gunreben, J. Scharf, R. Casellas, R. Martinez, R. Muñoz, Experimental Validation and Assessment of Multi-domain and Multi-layer Path Computation, accepted for publication in the 6th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (Tridentcom 2010), being held in Berlin, Germany, on 3-6 May 2010.
  • R. Casellas, R. Martinez, R. Muñoz, S. Gunreben, Enhanced Backwards Recursive Path Computation for Multi-area Wavelength Switched Optical Networks Under Wavelength Continuity Constraint, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) Vol. 1, No. 2 pp. A180-A193, ISSN: 1943-062, July 2009


Model-driven Configuration Mechanisms for Testbed Infrastructures

  • Telefónica I+D (Spain), UAM (Spain), UPM (Spain)

This joint activity with the researchers Fermín Galán (Telefónica I+D, Spain), Jorge E. López de Vergara from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain), and David Fernández from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM, Spain)is focused on providing a model-driven mechanism to reconfigure testbeds (as ADRENALINE testbed), providing automation to overcome the problems of manual interaction and inter-tested integration. Two joint publications have been produced so far:

  • F. Galan, D. Fernandez, J.E. Lopez de Vergara, and R. Casellas, Using a model-driven architecture for technology-independent scenario configuration in networking testbeds, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48, n.12, pp. 132-141, December 2010
  • F. Galán, J.E. López de Vergara, D. Fernández, R. Muñoz, Scenario-based Configuration Management for Flexible Experimentation Infrastructures, in Proc. 5th International Conference on testbed and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (Tridentcom 2009), April 6 -8 2009, Washington D.C (USA).
  • F. Galán, J.E. López de Vergara, D. Fernández, R. Muñoz, A Model-Driven Configuration Management Methodology for Testbed Infrastructures, in Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2008), 7-11 April 2008, Salvador-Bahia (Brasil).


RWA parameters and algorithms taking into account QoT

Under this topic, two different collaborative research actions have been performed with European and Japanese R&D institutions. In both actions, the common goal was to introduce impairment-awareness in wavelength-routed networks with non-ideal optical layers. All-optical transport networks were chosen as the paradigm for this work, because these networks do not have opto-electronic conversions in the core nodes of the network, and therefore physical optical links are not isolated. That is, on the one hand the optical signal is not regenerated at every node, and on the other errors and impairments propagate in the network.

Impairment-awareness has been tackled primarily in the lightpath setup process, more precisely in the form of impairment-aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) algorithms performed by a control plane, e.g., the Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS), and in the definition and measurement of quality-of-transmission (QoT) parameters and physical-layer models to estimate and validate QoT for impairment-aware RWA.


  • CNIT (Italy), SSSUP (Italy), France Télécom/Orange Labs (France), KTH (Sweden)

Joint activity under the framework of the FP7 ICT NoE BONE (2007-2009) and FP6 IST NoE E1+ (E-Photon/One+, 2006-2007) projects with the researchers F. Cugini, N. Andriolli and I.Cerrutti (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, CNIT, Italy), N. Sambo, L. Valacarenghi and P. Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, SSSUP, Italy), L. Wosinska (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden, participating only in E1+), and E. Le Rouzic and J. Poirrier (France Télécom/Orange Labs, France). The seed of this collaboration was the COST 270 action, entitled "Reliability of Optical Components and Devices in Communications Systems and Networks". L. Wosinska (KTH) led the WG1 (Reliability of optical networks and systems including free space optical communications) of COST 270, and F. Cugini (CNIT) participated in this working group.

This collaboration has produced the following joint publications:

This collaboration has produced the following research stays:

  • C. Pinart, R. Martínez, F. Cugini, "In-service performance monitoring and reliability aspects in domains of transparency", Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) funded by COST Action 270 and hosted by Lena Wosinska (KTH), 20/06/2005 - 24/06/2005. Special participation of Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California-Davis, US). >> Download main results of the stay <<

This collaboration has produced the following invited speeches:


  • NICT (Japan)

Joint activity under the framework of a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2006, awarded to C. Pinart) and of the Bilateral GAUDI project (2007-2009). This activity with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, Japan) is conducted in collaboration with H. Harai, Senior Researcher and now Head of the Network Architecture Group at the NICT. Since June 2008, this collaboration is framed in a Cooperation Agreement between the NICT and the CTTC to develop scientific research projects in Impairment-aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment (IRWA).

This collaboration has produced the following joint publications:

This collaboration has produced the following research stays:

  • C. Pinart, "RWA parameters and algorithms taking into account QoT", research stay funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (GAUDI project, PCI2006-A7-0715) and hosted by Hiroaki Harai (NICT), 08/08/2008 - 15/08/2008. | >> Download main results of the stay <<
  • C. Pinart, "Modelling of an aggregate link-state parameter for impairment-constraint based routing in all-optical networks", research stay funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Short-term Post-Doctoral Fellowship) and hosted by Hiroaki Harai (NICT), 01/08/2006 - 30/09/2006. >> Download main results of the stay <<

Inter-domain GMPLS-TE provisioning

  • Alcatel-Lucent (France), Telecom Paristech (France), France Telecom (France)

During the summer of 2008, within the framework of the national French ACTRICE project, two students from Politecnico de Torino (Italy) and Alcatel-Lucent (France) visited the CTTC, and implemented and validated theoretical control plane extensions for inter-domain provisioning. The joint collaboration was done among the CTTC, Institut Telecom Paristech (France), Alcatel-Lucent and France Telecom. A joint publication was published with the results obtained at the CTTC premises:

  • A. Prem, J-L. Rougier, S. Secci, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, N. B. Djarallah, R. Douville, H. Pouyllau, Implementation and validation of control-plane extensions for inter-domain GMPLS-TE provisioning in Proc. 5th International Conference on testbed and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (Tridentcom 2009), April 6 -8 2009, Washington D.C (USA).


ASON-GMPLS Signaling Interworking in a multi-layer (TDM-LSC) network

  • Telefónica I+D (Spain), Telecom Italia (Italy), Deutsche Telekom (Germany), Alcatel-Lucent (Germany), UPC (Spain)

During the period of 2007-2008 of the European FP6 IST IP NOBEL2 project, the CTTC collaborated with researchers of different telecom operators such as Telefónica I+D, Telecom Italia and Deutsche Telekom (Germany) together with researches from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and from Alcatel-Lucent. The aim of such collaboration was devoted on the validating the interworking between ASON and GMPLS networks through a dedicated proxy designed at the CTTC. This results in not only three joint publications but also in an public demisntration held at the 12th international conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM), Vilanova i la Geltrú (Spain) in March 2008.

  • R. Muñoz, R. Martínez, R. Casellas, R. Morro, C. Cavazzoni, S. Pizzaja, M. Jaeger, H.-M. Foisel, J. Jiménez, C. García, H. Dentler, Experimental Demonstration of ASON-GMPLS Signaling Interworking in the NOBEL2 Multi-Domain Multi-Layer Control Plane Emulator, in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2008), 12-14 March 2008, Vilanova i la Geltrú (Spain).
  • J. Jimenez, O. Gonzalez, B. Puype, T. Cinkler, P. Hegyi, R. Muñoz, R. Martínez, F. Galán, R. Morro, Multilayer Traffic Engineering Experimental Demonstrator in the Nobel-II Project, in Proc. BroadBand Europe 2007 (BBEurope 2007), Antwerp (Belgium), 3-6 December 2007.
  • R. Muñoz, R. Martínez, F. Galán, R. Morro, H.M. Foisel, S. Szuppa, J. Jiménez, O. González, H. Dentler, E. Escalona, F.Agraz, S. Spadaro, B. Berde, Experimental interconnection and interworking of the multi-domain (ASON-GMPLS) and multi-layer (TDM-LSC) NOBEL2 Test-beds, in Proc. 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), Berlin (Germany), September 16-20 2007.


An integrated GMPLS/OBS Control Plane

  • UPC (Spain)

During the period of 2007-2008 of the European FP6 IST IP NOBEL2 project, the CTTC collaborated with researchers of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), working on the definition of an integrated GMPLS/OBS Control Plane, published in:

  • P. Pedroso, D. Careglio, R. Casellas, M. Klinkowski, J. Solé-Pareta, An integrated GMPLS/OBS Control Plane: RSVP and OSPF extensions proposal, In Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2008), 23-25 July 2008, Graz (Austria).


Unified Control plane and Management plane for a GMPLS network

  • Alcatel-Lucent (France), Atos Origin (France), IBBT (Belgium), Telefónica I+D (Spain)

In the period 2004-2006 and under the framework of the EUREKA/ITEA TBONES project, the Optical Networking Area kept an important collaboration with researchers from Alcatel-Lucent in Belgium (D. Papadimitrou) and France (B. Berde and O. Audouin), Atos Origin in France (R. Theillaud and V. Piperaud), the University of Ghent in Belgium (D. Colle, S. Verbrugge and I. Lievens), and Telefónica I+D in Spain (J. González). The goal of this joint reseacrh was to design, implement, and validate a unified GMPLS control plane and a management plane in multi-domain network scenarios.

This collaboration produced the following joint publications:


Research stays

  • Carolina Pinart, "RWA parameters and algorithms taking into account QoT", research stay funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (GAUDI project, PCI2006-A7-0715) and hosted by Hiroaki Harai (NICT), 08/08/2008 - 15/08/2008. >> Download main results of the stay <<
  • Ramon Casellas, "GMPLS control of Optical Wavelength Switched Networks with Path Computation Elements", research stay funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (GAUDI project, PCI2006-A7-0715). Host: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan. Host researcher. Dr. Hiroaki Harai. Duration: NICT - 12/06/2008 - 17/06/2008.
  • Ramon Casellas, "GMPLS control of Optical Wavelength Switched Networks with Path Computation Elements", research stay funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (GAUDI project, PCI2006-A7-0715). Host: KDDI R&D Labs and National, Japan. Host researcher. Dr. Takehiro Tsuritani. Duration: KDDI R&D - 09/06/2008 - 11/06/2008.
  • Carolina Pinart, "Modelling of an aggregate link-state parameter for impairment-constraint based routing in all-optical networks", research stay funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Short-term Post-Doctoral Fellowship) and hosted by Hiroaki Harai (NICT), 01/08/2006 - 30/09/2006. >> Download main results of the stay <<
  • Carolina Pinart and Ricardo Martínez, "In-service performance monitoring and reliability aspects in domains of transparency", Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) funded by COST Action 270 and hosted by Lena Wosinska (KTH), 20/06/2005 - 24/06/2005. Special participation of Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California-Davis, US). >> Download main results of the stay <<


Visiting Researchers

Visiting Professors

  • Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou and Georgios Zervas, PhD (University of Essex, UK), speaker within the CTTC weekly seminar series. Topic:Driving Future Internet Research and Experimentation in the UK. 22 July 2010. More info.
  • Prof. Ioannis Tomkos (AIT, Greece), Invited speaker within the CTTC's Distinguished Lectureship Program. Topic: Converged Optical Networks. 15 - 16 July 2009. More info.
  • Hiroaki Harai, PhD (NICT, Japan), within the International Complementary Action GAUDI. Topic: Designing New Generation Network/Optical Network Architecture. 14 – 18 April 2008. More info.
  • Guido Maier, PhD (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Invited speaker at CTTC weekly seminar series. Topic: Multi-Domain Routing Policies in ASON Networks. 1 March 1st 2007 More Info.
  • Andrea Fumagalli, PhD (The University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA), Invited speaker at CTTC weekly seminar series. Topic: OpNeAR and the OMEGA project. July 4th 2005 More Info.


Visiting PhD Candidates

  • Nabil Djarallah (Alcatel-Lucent, France), within the ACTRICE project. Experimentation and validation of new networking architectures, and PCE-enabled multi-domain provisioning. Supervisors: Dr. Ramon Casellas, Dr. Ricardo Martínez Duration: April 2008 - August 31, 2008.
  • Jordi Sorribes, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Visiting PhD Candidate under the supervision of Dr. Raül Muñoz, CTTC Research Associate and , Prof. G. Junyent (UPC). Duration: November 1 2003 - May 2006.
  • Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Visiting PhD Candidate under the supervision of Dr. Raül Muñoz, CTTC Research Associate. November 2005 - February 2006.
  • Martin Herzog, Technische Universität Berlin, Visiting PhD Candidate under the supervision of Dr. Martin Maier, Research Associate. April - May 2004.


Visiting Undergraduate Students

  • Jaume Serret (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, INSA, Lyon, France), Research Topic: Design and implementation of a bias control for a Mach-Zehnder modulator. Supervisor: Dr. J. M. Fàbrega (CTTC). Duration: June 2011 - August 2011.
  • Fabiana Ferraro (Politecnico di Torino, Italy - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC), Research Topic: Novel efficient optical OFDM schemes for direct detection transmission systems. Supervisor: Dr. Michela Svaluto Moreolo (CTTC). Duration: November 2009 - September 2010.
  • Jordi Jofre (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC), Software development of a web-based NMS. Undergraduate Trainee (CTTC program). Supervisors: Dr. R. Muñoz (CTTC) and Dr. R.Casellas (CTTC). Duration: September 1 2008 - January 31 2009.
  • Aruna Prem Bianzino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy - Telecom Paristech, France), within the ACTRICE project. Experimentation and validation of new networking architectures, and PCE-enabled multi-domain provisioning. Supervisors: Dr. Ramon Casellas, Dr. Ricardo Martínez Duration: April 2008 - August 31, 2008.
  • Gloria Bogliolo (Politecnico di Torino), Analysis and characterization of optical parameters: towards QoS enabled wavelength routed networks. Undergraduate trainee (ERASMUS Program). Supervisor: C. Pinart (CTTC) and Dr. A. Amrani (CTTC). Duration: March - September 2005.
  • Jordi Olmo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC), Software development of SNMP based agents for optical nodes. Undergraduate trainee (ITEA 02024/FIT-070000-2003-936). Supervisors: C. Pinart (CTTC), Prof. G. Junyent (UPC) and Dr. J. Comellas (UPC). Duration: May 10 2003 - May 23 2005.
  • Ivan Martínez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC), Software development of optical node controllers. Undergraduate trainee (ITEA 02024/FIT-070000-2003-936). Supervisors: Dr. A. Amrani (CTTC), Prof. G. Junyent (UPC) and Dr. J. Comellas (UPC). Duration: November 1 2003 - May 31 2005.
  • Dani Cascante (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC), Programming of dynamic optical connections' requests. Undergraduate trainee (ITEA 02024/FIT-070000-2003-936). Supervisors: R. Muñoz (CTTC), Prof. G. Junyent (UPC) and Dr. J. Comellas (UPC). Duration: November 1 2003 - February 28 2005.
  • A. Kwin A'Kum (Technische Universität Berlin), Optical protection in ring-star networks. Undergraduate Trainee ( CTTC program ). Supervisor: Dr. Martin Maier (CTTC). Duration: September 1 2004 - February 25 2005.
  • Carlos Linares (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC), Software development of SNMP based agents for optical nodes. Undergraduate trainee (ITEA 02024/FIT-070000-2003-936). Supervisors: C. Pinart (CTTC), Prof. G. Junyent (UPC) and Dr. J. Comellas (UPC). Duration: November 2003 - April 2004.
  • Akos Szodenyi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, BUTE). Undergraduate trainee (EU Leonardo da Vinci Program). Placement: All-optical dynamic ASON transport plane handling IP/Ethernet Gigabit traffic: design and implementation criteria (ADAGIO). Supervisors: C. Pinart (CTTC) and Dr. M. Tamas (BUTE). Duration: March - December 2003.

Participation in Phd Thesis evaluation boards

  • Optimization of Optical Interconnection and Communication Networks, María Belén García Manrubia (Advisor: Dr. Pablo Pavón Mariño), Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Área de Telemática, Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, January 20th, 2012.
  • Propuesta y evaluación de arquitecturas de red óptica de acceso basadas en tecnología WDM-PON, Juan José Martínez Muro (Advisor: Prof. Juan Ignacio Garcés Gregorio), Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A), October 10th, 2011.
  • Solutions for Building Service Oriented Optical Networks, Eduard Escalona (Advisors: Dr. Salvatore Spadaro), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept. of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), May 4th, 2011.
  • Characterization and Design of Multifunction Photonic Devices for Next Generation Fiber-to-the-Home Optical Network Units, Bernhard Schrenk (Advisors: Prof. Josep Prat, Dr. José Lázaro), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept. of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), April 28th, 2011.
  • New Generation FTTH ONU and OLT Design for Upstream Transmission in WDM PON Including Optimized Combination of Electronics and Optics, Mireia Omella (Advisors: Prof. Josep Prat, Dr. José Lázaro), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept. of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), October 18th, 2010.
  • Resource Management in GMPLS-controlled Hybrid OBS/OCS transport networks, Jordi Perelló (Advisor: Dr. Salvatore Spadaro, Dr. Jaume Comellas), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), June 19 2009.
  • Recovery Mechanisms in ASON/GMPLS Networks, Luis Velasco (Advisor: Dr. Salvatore Spadaro, Dr. Jaume Comellas), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), May 29 2009.
  • Aplicacions de la Conversió de Longitud d'Ona en Xarxes Òptiques de Transport, Josep Conesa (Advisor: Jaume Comellas), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), June 13 2008.
  • Experimental GMPLS-based routing for dynamic lightpath provisioning and recovery in all-optical WDM networks, Ricardo Martínez (Advisor: Prof Gabriel Junyuent, Dr Jaume Comellas), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), April 11 2007.
  • Novel management strategies for dynamic provisioning and monitoring in all-optical, control plane enabled metro IP/WDM networks, Carolina Pinart (Advisor: Gabriel Junyent) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Dept of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), December 20 2005.

Collaborating Institution in Research Projects

  • FP6 IST NoE E1+ (E-Photon/One+), EU 6th Framework Program (FP6) for Research and Technological Development - Information Society Technologies (IST) Work Programme. Network of Excellence (NoE). Project code: FP6-001933. Project Duration: 01/03/2006 – 28/2/2008. Collaborating Institution. [More Info]
FP6 IST NoE E1+
  • The French ACTRICE project (Approche Combinée de Technologies Réseaux Inter-domaine sous Contraintes Economiques), funded by the Agence Nationale por la Recherche (ANR) France, with label 2005 du Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications (RNRT), and led by Alcatel-Lucent France, aims at developing new models and solutions in order to meet the new requirements for the inter-connection of network operators in the inter-domain context. With work Package 4, members of the project have participated in the experimentation and validation of new networking architectures on the CTTC ADRENALINE GMPLS testbed. The studied protocol extensions and algorithms are designed in order to automate inter-domain MPLS tunnel provisioning, very popular for inter-provider VPN offers (with QoS warantees), or for VoIP interconnection between providers. The solution is based on the PCE architecture together with specific MPLS-TE inter-domain extensions, and allows providers to cooperate in the context of an alliance of ISPs in order to offer such interdomain services. Aruna Prem Bianzino (Ms.C. Politecnico di Torino) and Nabil Djarallah (Alcatel-Lucent France), visted the CTTC from May to August 2008. They both worked with the Optical Networking Area, in the context of the project, extending the ADRENALINE Testbed ® implementing and validating theoretical control plane extensions for inter-domain provisioning in a Joint collaboration between CTTC, Institut Telecom Paristech, Alcatel-Lucent France and France Telecom.
ACTRICE


Cooperation Agreements

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

  • On May 21st 2008, The CTTC has signed a cooperation agreement with the NICT of Japan to develop scientific research projects in the optical networking field. By means of this agreement the previously established relations among the two institutions are consolidated. The first point of contact took place in 2006, with the postdoctoral stay of the researcher Dr. Carolina Pinart at NICT. Successively, in January 2008, the 2-year International Complementary Action GAUDI Design and study of GMPLS algorithms and monitoring techniques for intelligent wavelength-routed Networks started, led by Dr. Raül Muñoz. In the framework of this action, during April 2008, Dr. Hiroaki Harai, responsible for the Optical Grid Infrastructure Project, carried out a stay at CTTC and Dr. Ramon Casellas, researcher of the CTTC, is currently visiting NICT. The Optical Grid Infrastructure project is part of the Network Architecture Group of NICT, formerly led by Dr. Masaki Hirabaru and currently led by Dr. Hiroaki Harai (since September 2008).. [More Info]
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