Integrated Services Optical Grid Architecture for Emerging Scientific Collaborative Applications

An Early Career PI Project

Existing Grid systems are primarily built over IP packet switched networks. To support deterministic multi-gigabit rate transport, Lambda Grid systems are being built over optical wavelength or lambda switched networks with lightpaths that link schedulable computation resources. This project is developing middleware to enable network-aware applications to establish explicit lightpaths and to select the appropriate network service to transport data over them..

The goal is to develop intelligent control services to enable an optical wavelength switched network to provide heterogeneous network services to scientific applications.

The objectives of this project are

• Develop Integrated Services Optical Network (ISON) control plane services.
• Develop Dynamic Application-centric Intelligent Signaling Interface (DAISI) middleware.
• Develop provisioning with Secure Photonic Inter-domain Negotiator (SPIN) as an open secure multi-domain control plane.
• Deploy and evaluate these capabilities on several optical networks and testbeds.

For more info, see:

• 2-Page Summary, March 2004 (PDF)