Project ONOFRE

Optical Networks Convergence in the Future Internet

What is ONOFRE? Partners Events Publications

What is ONOFRE?

Traffic forecasts predict an exponential increase (e.g. duplicating every 4 years) in traffic volume in communication networks, with the growing popularity of Triple/Quadruple Play services, cloud computing, social networking or online gaming. Also, forecasts predict an increase in traffic dynamicity and variability, driven by bandwidth-hungry multimedia and mobile services that request network resources on-demand, following patterns not easy to estimate. This context is driving the penetration of optical technologies into the access network, and the adoption into the metro of ROADM-based multilayer IP/MPLS-over-WDM networks with strong constraints in terms of network flexibility and agility to rapid provision of optical bandwidth.

ONOFRE project is focused on an access/metro network convergent design, investigating the effects of NGPON2 and NGPON3 evolutions. Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) mechanisms are studied in depth, analyzing how QoS and clock synchronization requirements constraint the network design. Another goal is to investigate on-demand resource allocation schemes that behave efficiently under high traffic variability scenarios in the ROADM-based multilayer optical metro. Moreover in ONOFRE project we seek on implementing an OpenFlow (SDN) framework for a converged access/metro control plane suitable for this scenario.

Reference: TEC2014-53071-C3-1-P (Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia, Convocatoria de ayudas a Proyectos de I+D «EXCELENCIA» Subprograma de Generación de Conocimiento 2014)

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación

Partners

Coordinator Group

GIRTEL (Grupo de Investigación de Redes de Telecomunicación / Telecommunication Networks Engineering Group)
PI: Pablo Pavón Mariño

Escuela Técnica Superior de Telecomunicación
Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Antiguo Cuartel de Antigones, Plaza del Hospital 1
30202 - Cartagena (España)

Phone: +34 968 32 5952
E-Mail: pablo.pavon@upct.es

GIRTEL Telecommunication Networks Engineering Group ( Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena )
GCO-UVa Optical Communications Group (Universidad de Valladolid)
i2CAT Foundation

Events

November 16th, 2017
The closing meeting of the project was held in Cartagena (hosted by the Technical University of Cartagena)
July 6th, 2017
Jose Luis Izquierdo, one of the ONOFRE researchers, defended his thesis "Planning and Optimization of Multilayer Optical Networks", supervised by Pablo Pavón Mariño and Victoria Bueno Delgado. Luis Velasco (UPC) and Ramon Aparicio (University of Nice, France) and Juan Pedro Muñoz Gea (UPCT) were part of the PhD Commission. The thesis received the highest grade Sobresaliente Cum Laude (unanimity). Congratulations!
July 2017
César Francisco San Nicolás Martínez (UPCT, now intern at the GIRTEL group) defended his final project, B.Sc. in Telematics Engineering, entitled "Integration and Continuous Development tools for Collaborative Software Projects". This work subject is highly related to the ONOFRE scope.
May 5th, 2017
José Luis Izquierdo Zaragoza, left the research group GIRTEL and the ONOFRE project. He incorporates as PostDoc in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, in the Group of Optical Communications. Good luck Jose Luis!
November 22nd, 2016
The annual meeting of partners was held in Barcelona (hosted by the i2Cat Foundation)
October 2016
The student Javier López Fernández (UPCT, now intern at the GIRTEL group) defended his final project, B.Sc. in Telematics Engineering, entitled "SDN Tool for Heterogeneous Ethernet Network Automation". This work subject is highly related to the ONOFRE scope.
October 28th, 2015
The kick-off meeting of partners was held in Valladolid (hosted by the University of Valladolid ) on October the 28th.
July 31st, 2015
Definitive concession of project ONOFRE.
April 16th, 2015
Provisional concession of project ONOFRE.

Publications

The following publications have been total or partially funded by the ONOFRE project:

  1. Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Marija Furdek, Avishek Nag, Paolo Monti, Lena Wosinska and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “On the Dimensioning of Survivable Optical Metro/Core Networks with Dual-Homed Access,” in Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR2015) , July 2015.
    [BibTeX] 

    										@inproceedings{Izquierdo2015a,
										author = {Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis and Furdek, Marija and Nag, Avishek and Monti, Paolo and Wosinska, Lena and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
										title = {On the Dimensioning of Survivable Optical Metro/Core Networks with Dual-Homed Access},
										booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR2015)},
										year = {2015}
										}

  2. Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “Multilayer Network Planning and Operation Using Open-Source Tools,” in Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR2015) , July 2015.
    [BibTeX] 

    										@inproceedings{Izquierdo2015b,
										author = {Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
										title = {Multilayer Network Planning and Operation Using Open-Source Tools},
										booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR2015)},
										year = {2015}
										}

  3. Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “Net2Plan: An Open-Source Multilayer Network Planning Tool and In-Operation Simulator (Demo Paper),” in Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR2015) , July 2015.
    [BibTeX] 

    										@inproceedings{Izquierdo2015c,
										author = {Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
										title = {Net2Plan: An Open-Source Multilayer Network Planning Tool and In-Operation Simulator (Demo Paper)},
										booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR2015)},
										year = {2015}
										}

  4. Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “Net2Plan: An integrated open-source framework for multilayer network planning and in-operation simulation,” in Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on , pp. 1-4, 2015.
    [BibTeX] [PDF] 

    										@inproceedings{Izquierdo-Zaragoza2015,
										author = {Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis and Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
										title = {Net2Plan: An integrated open-source framework for multilayer network planning and in-operation simulation},
										booktitle = {Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on},
										year = {2015},
										pages = {1--4},
										url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7193724},
										doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193724}
										}

  5. Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “Maximizing IP Fast Rerouting Coverage in Survivable IP-over-WDM Networks,” in Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) , September-October 2015.
    [BibTeX] 

    										@inproceedings{Izquierdo2015e,
										author = {Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis and Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
										title = {Maximizing IP Fast Rerouting Coverage in Survivable IP-over-WDM Networks},
										booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015)},
										year = {2015}
										}

  6. Ajmal Muhammad, Nina Skorin-Kapov and Lena Wosinska, “Manycast and Anycast Routing for Replica Placement in DataCenter Networks,” in Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) , September-October 2015.
    [BibTeX] 

    										@inproceedings{Muhammad2015,
										author = {Ajmal Muhammad and Nina Skorin-Kapov and Lena Wosinska},
										title = {Manycast and Anycast Routing for Replica Placement in DataCenter Networks},
										booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015)},
										year = {2015}
										}

  7. Ramón J. Durán, Natalia Fernández, Domenico Siracusa, Antonio Francescona, Ignacio de Miguel, Ignacio Rodrígueza, Juan Carlos Aguado, Elio Salvadori and Rubén M. Lorenzo,“ Experimental assessment of a cognitive mechanism to reduce the impact of outdated TEDs in optical networks,” Photonic Network Communications ,2015.
    [BibTeX] 

    										@article{Duran2015,author = {Ramón J. Durán and Natalia Fernández and Domenico Siracusa and Antonio Francescona and Ignacio de Miguel and Ignacio Rodrígueza and Juan Carlos Aguado and Elio Salvadori and Rubén M. Lorenzo},
										title = {Experimental assessment of a cognitive mechanism to reduce the impact of outdated TEDs in optical networks},
										journal = {Photonic Network Communications},
										year = {2015},
										doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11107-015-0562-7}
										}

  8. M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, and L. Wosinska, "Attack-Aware Dedicated Path Protection in Optical Networks", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology , Vol. 34, No. 4, pp 1050-1061, Feb 2016
    [BibTeX] 

    										@article{Furdek2016,
										author = {Furdek, Marija and Skorin-Kapov, Nina and Wosinska, Lena},
										title = {Attack-Aware Dedicated Path Protection in Optical Networks},
										journal = {IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology},
										year = {2016},
										volume = {34},
										pages= {1050-1061},
										}

  9. Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Pablo Pavon-Marino, Oscar Gonzalez de Dios and Victor Lopez, “Dynamic Operation of an IP/MPLS-over-WDM Network Using an Active Stateful BGP/LS-Enabled Multilayer PCE,” in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2016) ,July 2016.
    [BibTeX] [PDF] 

    								@inproceedings{Izquierdo2016,
								  author = {Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis and Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan and Pavon-Marino, Pablo and Gonzalez de Dios, Oscar and Lopez, Victor},
								  title = {Dynamic Operation of an IP/MPLS-over-WDM Network Using an Active Stateful BGP/LS-Enabled Multilayer PCE},
								  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2016)},
								  year = {2016}
								}

  10. Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “Joint Fault Tolerant and Latency-Aware Design of Multilayer Optical Networks,” in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2016) ,May 2016.
    [BibTeX] [PDF] 

    							@inproceedings{Pedreno2016,
							  author = {Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan and Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
							  title = {Joint Fault Tolerant and Latency-Aware Design of Multilayer Optical Networks},
							  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2016)},
							  year = {2016}
							}

  11. Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marija Furdek, Szilard Zsigmond, and Lena Wosinska, "Physical-layer security in evolving optical networks," IEEE Communications Magazine , vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 110-117, Aug. 2016.
    [BibTeX] 

    								@article{Kapov2016,
								author = {Skorin-Kapov, Nina and Furdek, Marija and Szilard, Zsigmond and Wosinska, Lena},
								title = {PHYSICAL-LAYER SECURITY IN EVOLVING OPTICAL NETWORKS};
								journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine },
								year = {2016},
								volume = {54},
								pages = {110-117},
								}

  12. P. S. Khodashenas, J. Aznar, A. Legarrea, C. Ruiz, M.S. Siddiqui, E. Escalona, S. Figuerola, “5G Network Challenges and Realization Insights” Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2016) , July 2016.
    [BibTeX] 

                                            @inproceedings{Pouria2016,
                                        author = {P. S. Khodashenas, J. Aznar, A. Legarrea, C. Ruiz, M.S. Siddiqui, E. Escalona, S. Figuerola},
                                        title = {5G Network Challenges and Realization Insights};
                                        booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2016)},
                                        year = {2016},
                                        }

  13. Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “Guaranteeing Traffic Survivability and Latency Awareness in Multilayer Network Design,” Journal of Optical Communications and Networking , vol. 9, no. 3, pp. B53-B63,2017.
    [BibTeX] [PDF] 

    										@article{Pedreno2017,
										  author = {Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan and Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
										  title = {Guaranteeing Traffic Survivability and Latency Awareness in Multilayer Network Design},
										  journal = {Journal of Optical Communications and Networking},
										  publisher = {Optical Society of America},
										  year = {2017},
										  volume = {9},
										  number = {3},
										  pages = {B53--B63},
										  url = {10.1364/JOCN.9.000B53},
										  doi = {http://doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.9.000B53}
										}

  14. Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “Dynamic QoS/QoE assurance in realistic NFV-enabled 5G Access Networks,” in 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2017)
    [BibTeX] [URL] 

    										@inproceedings{Pedreno2017a,
										  author = {Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan and Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad and Siddiqui, Muhammad Shuaib and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
										  title = {Dynamic QoS/QoE assurance in realistic NFV-enabled 5G Access Networks},
										  booktitle = {19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2017},
										  year = {2017},
										  url = {10.1109/ICTON.2017.8025149},
										  doi = {http://doi.org/10.1109/icton.2017.8025149}
										}

  15. Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui and Pablo Pavon-Marino, “On the Need of Joint Bandwidth and NFV Resource Orchestration: a Realistic 5G Access Network Use Case,”IEEE Communications Letters, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 4, 2017.
    [BibTeX] [URL] 

    										@article{Pedreno2017b,
										  author = {Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan and Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad and Siddiqui, Muhammad Shuaib and Pavon-Marino, Pablo},
										  title = {On the Need of Joint Bandwidth and NFV Resource Orchestration: a Realistic 5G Access Network Use Case},
										  journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},
										  year = {2017},
										  volume = {PP},
										  number = {99},
										  pages = {4},
										  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2760826},
										  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2760826}
										}

  16. Ajmal Muhammad, Nina Skorin-Kapov and Marija Furdek, "Manycast, Anycast and Replica Placement (MARP) in Optical Inter-Datacenter Networks", accepted for publication in IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

  17. F.J. Moreno-Muro, R. Rumipamba-Zambrano, P. Pavón-Marino, J. Perelló, J.M. Gené, S. Spadaro, “Evaluation of Core-Continuity-Constrained ROADMs for Flex-Grid/MCF Optical Networks”, accepted in IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

  18. N. Merayo, P. Pavon-Marino, J.C. Aguado, R.J. Durán, F. Burrull, M.V. Bueno-Delgado, “Fair Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for PONs Based on Network Utility Maximization”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 75-86, 2017
    [BibTeX] [URL] 

    										@Article{Merayo2017,
									  author        = {Merayo, N and Pavon-Marino, P and Aguado, JC and Dur{\'a}n, RJ and Burrull, F and Bueno-Delgado, V},
									  title         = {Fair bandwidth allocation algorithm for PONS based on network utility maximization},
									  journal       = {Journal of Optical Communications and Networking},
									  year          = {2017},
									  volume        = {9},
									  number        = {1},
									  pages         = {75--86},
									  doi           = {10.1364/JOCN.9.000075},
									  publisher     = {Optical Society of America},
									}

  19. M. Tornatore, N. Skorin-Kapov and P. Pavon-Marino, “Introduction to the Special Issue on Optical Network Design and Modeling”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 3, no. 1, 2017
    [BibTeX] [URL] 

    										@Article{Tornatore2017,
									  author        = {Tornatore, Massimo and Skorin-Kapov, Nina and Mari{\~n}o, Pablo Pavon},
									  title         = {Introduction to the special issue on optical network design and modeling},
									  journal       = {Journal of Optical Communications and Networking},
									  year          = {2017},
									  volume        = {9},
									  number        = {3},
									  pages         = {ODM1--ODM1},
									  doi           = {10.1364/JOCN.9.00ODM1},
									  publisher     = {Optical Society of America},
									}

  20. R. Flores, D. Fernández, L. Bellido, N. Merayo, J.C. Aguado, I. de Miguel, “NFV-based QoS provision for Software Defined Optical Access and residential networks”, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2017
    [URL]

  21. S. Fernández, I. de Miguel, R.J. Durán, J.J. Castro, N. Merayo, J.C. Aguado, L. Ruiz, P. Fernández, R.M. Lorenzo, and E.J. Abril, “Techno-economic comparison of dynamic traffic grooming strategies for elastic optical networks”, Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2017
    [URL]

  22. N. Merayo, J.C. Aguado, C.M. Miguel, R.J. Durán, I. de Miguel, P. Fernandez, R.M. Lorenzo, E.J. Abril, “Testbed laboratory for the physical analysis of gigabit passive optical access networks (GPONS)”, Proceedings of 56th FITCE Congress, 2017
    [URL]

  23. J. Mata, I. de Miguel, R.J. Durán, J.C. Aguado, N. Merayo, L. Ruiz, P. Fernández, R.M. Lorenzo, E.J. Abril, “A SVM approach for lightpath QoT estimation in optical transport networks”, Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2017
    [URL]

  24. L. Ruiz, I. González, R.J. Durán, I. de Miguel, N. Merayo, J.C. Aguado, P. Fernández, R.M. Lorenzo, E.J. Abril, “Comparing Different Types of Flexibility when Solving the RSA Problem in EONs”, Proceedings of 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 2017
    [URL]

  25. J. Mata, I. de Miguel, R.J. Durán, J.C. Aguado, N. Merayo, L. Ruiz, P. Fernández, R.M. Lorenzo, E.J. Abril, and I. Tomkos, “Supervised Machine Learning Techniques for Quality of Transmission Assessment in Optical Networks”, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2018
    [URL]

  26. L. Ruiz, R. J. Durán, I. de Miguel, P. S. Khodashenas, J.J. Pedreno-Manresa, N. Merayo, J. C. Aguado, P. Pavon-Marino, S. Siddiqui, J. Mata, P. Fernández, R.M. Lorenzo, and E.J. Abril, “Genetic Algorithm for Effective Service Mapping in the Optical Backhaul of 5G Network”, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2018
    [URL]

  27. J. Mata, I. de Miguel, R.J. Durán, N. Merayo, S.K. Singh, A. Jukan, M. Chamania, “Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Optical Networks”, IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM), 2018;
    [URL]

  28. J. Azofra, N. Merayo, J.C. Aguado, I. de Miguel, R. Durán, F.J. Ruíz, C. Vega, D. Fernández, P. Fernández, R.M. Lorenzo, E.J. Abril, “Implementation of a testbed to analysis a SDN based GPON”, Proceedings of 44th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2018
    [URL]

  29. R.J. Durán, N. Fernández, D. Siracusa, A. Grancescon, I. de Mguel, I. Rodríguez, J.C. Aguado, E. Salvadori, R.M. Lorenzo, “Experimental assessment of a cognitive mechanism to reduce the impact of outdated TEDs in optical networks”, Photonic Network Communicationes,vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 259-271, April 2016
    [URL]

  30. N. Merayo, P. Pavón, J.C. Aguado, R.J. Durán, F. Burrull and V. Bueno-Delgado, “Fair Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for PONs Based on Network Utility Maximization”, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol.9, no. 1, pp. 75-86, January 2017
    [URL]

  31. N. Merayo, D. Juárez, J.C. Aguado, I. de Miguel, R. J. Durán, P. Fernández, R. M. Lorenzo, and E. J. Abril, “PID Controller Based on a Self-Adaptive Neural Network to Ensure QoS Bandwidth Requirements in Passive Optical Networks”, Journal of Optical Communications and Networkingvol.9, no. 5, pp. 433-445, May 2017
    [URL]

  32. J. Mata, I. de Miguel, R.J. Durán, N. Merayo, S.K. Singh, A. Jukan, M. Chamania, “Artificial intelligence (AI) methods in optical networks: A comprehensive survey”, Optical Switching and Networking, vol. 28, pp. 43-57, 2018
    [URL]

  33. L. Ruiz, R.J. Durán, I. de Miguel, P.S. Khodashenas, J.J. Pedreño-Manresa, N. Merayo, J.C. Aguado, P. Pavón-Marino, S. Siddiqui, J. Mata, P. Fernández, R.M. Lorenzo, E.J. Abril, “A Genetic Algorithm for VNF Provisioning in NFV-Enabled Cloud/MEC RAN Architectures”, Applied Sciencevo. 8, no. 12, 2614, pp.1-18, 2018
    [URL]

Contact Information

PI: Pablo Pavón Mariño
E-mail: pablo.pavon@upct.es

Reference: TEC2014-53071-C3-1-P
Project Duration: January 2015 to December 2017