Optical peRformanCe monitoring enabling dynamic networks using a Holistic cross-layEr, Self-configurable Truly flexible appRoAch

Project Information

ORCHESTRA

Grant agreement ID: 645360

DOI 10.3030/645360

Project closed

EC signature date 11 December 2014

Start date 1 February 2015

End date 31 January 2018

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 2 620 831,25

EU contribution € 2 620 331,00

Coordinated by

INSTITOUTO TECHNOLOGIAS YPOLOGISTON KAI EKDOSEON DIOFANTOS
Greece

Deliverables

Documents, reports (6)

Standardization activities
Dynamic network control plane requirements and specifications

This deliverable will provide the requirements and specifications for the hierarchical control and management infrastructure of ORCHESTRA

ORCHESTRA dynamic optical network, reference scenarios and use cases

This deliverable will provide the reference network and use cases and define ORCHESTRA’s architecture.

Impairment monitoring: from a hardware to a software ecosystem

This deliverable will provide the specifications for the monitoring algorithms that will be developed in the project. It will also report on the lab experiments for the evaluation of the accuracy of the measured physical parameters of an existing state-of-the-art commercial transport system.

Documentation standards
Final publishable activity report

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Factsheet and project presentation
ORCHESTRA video presentation
Website development and setup of social accounts

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Design of Low-Margin Optical Networks

Author(s): Yvan Pointurier
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 9/1, 2017, Page(s) A9, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.9.0000A9

Learning Process for Reducing Uncertainties on Network Parameters and Design Margins

Author(s): E. Seve, J. Pesic, C. Delezoide, S. Bigo, Y. Pointurier
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 10/2, 2018, Page(s) A298, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.10.00A298

Control and Management of Transponders With NETCONF and YANG

Author(s): M. Dallaglio, N. Sambo, F. Cugini, P. Castoldi
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 9/3, 2017, Page(s) B43, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.9.000B43

Quality of Transmission Estimation in WDM and Elastic Optical Networks Accounting for Space–Spectrum Dependencies

Author(s): I. Sartzetakis, K. Christodoulopoulos, C. P. Tsekrekos, D. Syvridis, E. Varvarigos
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 8/9, 2016, Page(s) 676, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.8.000676

YANG Models for Vendor-Neutral Optical Networks, Reconfigurable through State Machine

Author(s): Matteo Dallaglio, Nicola Sambo, Filippo Cugini, Piero Castoldi
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 55/8, 2017, Page(s) 170-178, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600733

Network Planning With Actual Margins

Author(s): Polyzois Soumplis, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, Marco Quagliotti, Annachiara Pagano, Emmanouel Varvarigos
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 35/23, 2017, Page(s) 5105-5120, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2017.2743461

BER Degradation Detection and Failure Identification in Elastic Optical Networks

Author(s): Alba P. Vela, Marc Ruiz, Francesco Fresi, Nicola Sambo, Filippo Cugini, Gianluca Meloni, Luca Poti, Luis Velasco, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 35/21, 2017, Page(s) 4595-4604, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2017.2747223

Sliceable Transponders: Pre-Programmed OAM, Control, and Management

Author(s): Nicola Sambo, Alessio Giorgetti, Filippo Cugini, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 36/7, 2018, Page(s) 1403-1410, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2017.2786859

Cross-Layer Adaptive Elastic Optical Networks

Author(s): Ippokratis Sartzetakis, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, Emmanuel Varvarigos
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 10/2, 2018, Page(s) A154, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.10.00A154

Experimental Demonstration of a Lightpath Management Procedure Based on a Hierarchical Architecture

Author(s): P. Giardina, N. Sambo, M. Dallaglio, G. Bernini, G. Carrozzo, F. Cugini, P. Castoldi
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 10/4, 2018, Page(s) 386, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.10.000386

Multi-Period Planning With Actual Physical and Traffic Conditions

Author(s): P. Soumplis, K. Christodoulopoulos, M. Quagliotti, A. Pagano, E. Varvarigos
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 10/1, 2018, Page(s) A144, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.10.00A144

Monitoring Plane Architecture and OAM Handler

Author(s): Nicola Sambo, Filippo Cugini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 34/8, 2016, Page(s) 1939-1945, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2510449

Conference proceedings (38)

ORCHESTRA- Optical performance monitoring enabling flexible networking

Author(s): K. Christodoulopoulos, P. Soumplis, I. Sartzetakis, M. Quagliotti,A. Di Giglio, A. Pagano, N. Argyris, C. Spatharakis, S. Dris, H. Avramopoulos, JC. Antona, C. Delezoide, P. Jennevé, J. Pesic, Y. Pointurier, N. Sambo, F. Cugini, P. Castoldi, G. Bernini, F. Moscatelli,G. Carrozzo, E. Varvarigos
Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications, 2016
Publisher: -

Service-triggered failure identification/localization through monitoring of multiple parameters

Author(s): M. Ruiz, F. Fresi, A. Vela, G. Meloni, N. Sambo, F. Cugini, L. Potì, L. Velasco, P. Castoldi
Published in: European Conference on Optical Communication, 2016
Publisher: VDE

Spectrum sharing for elastic transmission parameter adaptation

Author(s): N. Sambo, K. Christodoulopoulos, P. Castoldi, E. Varvarigos
Published in: European Conference on Optical Communication, 2016
Publisher: VDE

How deploying elastic and fixed 100 Gb/s transponders can further optimize cost per Gb/s during ageing of WDM networks

Author(s): T. Zami, J. Pesic and P. Ramantanis
Published in: European Conference on Optical Communication, 2016
Publisher: VDE

Cross-layer and dynamic network orchestration based on optical performance monitoring

Author(s): K. Christodoulopoulos ; I. Sartzetakis ; P. Soumplis ; E. Varvarigos
Published in: International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2017
Publisher: -

Demonstration of effective OAM for alien wavelength and transport network

Author(s): Francesco Paolucci, Nicola Sambo, Filippo Cugini, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2017, Page(s) W2A.31, ISBN 978-1-943580-23-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.W2A.31

Actual Margins Algorithm for Multi-Period Planning

Author(s): Polizois Soumplis, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, Marco Quagliotti, Annachiara Pagano, Emmanouel Varvarigos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2017, Page(s) W4F.1, ISBN 978-1-943580-23-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.W4F.1

On reducing optical monitoring uncertainties and localizing soft failures

Author(s): Ippokratis Sartzetakis, Konstantinos Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Emmanouel Manos Varvarigos
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4673-8999-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7997218

QoT Aware Adaptive Elastic Optical Networks

Author(s): Ippokratis Sartzetakis, Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Emmanouel Varvarigos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2017, Page(s) W4F.4, ISBN 978-1-943580-23-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.W4F.4

Demonstration of a SDN-based Spectrum Monitoring of Elastic Optical Networks

Author(s): Matteo Dallaglio, Quan Pham Van, Fabien Boitier, Camille Delezoide, Dominique Verchere, Patricia Layec, Arnaud Dupas, Nicola Sambo, Sébastien Bigo, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2017, Page(s) Tu3L.5, ISBN 978-1-943580-23-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.Tu3L.5

Configuring monitoring entities through NETCONF and YANG in control and hierarchical management planes

Author(s): Pietro Giardina, Nicola Sambo, Matteo Dallaglio, Giacomo Bernini, Gino Carrozzo, Filippo Cugini, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2017, Page(s) W1D.2, ISBN 978-1-943580-23-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.W1D.2

Pre-programming resilience schemes upon failure through NETCONF and YANG

Author(s): Matteo Dallaglio, Nicola Sambo, Filippo Cugini, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2017, Page(s) W1D.3, ISBN 978-1-943580-23-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.W1D.3

Improving QoT estimation accuracy through active monitoring

Author(s): Ippokratis Sartzetakis, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, Emmanouel Varvarigos
Published in: 2017 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2017, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-5386-0859-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2017.8025000

Learning process for reducing uncertainties on network parameters and design margins

Author(s): Emmanuel SEVE, Jelena Pesic, Camille Delezoide, Yvan Pointurier
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2017, Page(s) W4F.6, ISBN 978-1-943580-23-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.W4F.6

Weighted Filter Penalty Prediction for QoT Estimation

Author(s): Camille Delezoide, Petros Ramantanis, Patricia Layec
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2018, Page(s) W2A.56, ISBN 978-1-943580-38-5
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2018.W2A.56

Do elastic transponders with granularity finer than 50 Gb/s make gradual fit of modulation to ageing more profitable?

Author(s): Jelena Pesic, Thierry Zami, Nicola Rossi, Sébastien Bigo
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2017, Page(s) W1I.4, ISBN 978-1-943580-23-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2017.W1I.4

Control and Management of Sliceable Transponders

Author(s): N. Sambo, A. Giorgetti, F. Cugini, M. Dallaglio, P. Castoldi
Published in: European Conference on Optical Communication” (ECOC), 2017
Publisher: -

Experimental demonstration of fully disaggregated white box including different types of transponders and monitors, controlled by NETCONF and YANG

Author(s): N. Sambo, K. Christodoulopoulos, N. Argyris, P. Giardina, C. Delezoide, A. Sgambelluri, A. Kretsis, G. Kanakis, F. Fresi, G. Bernini, H. Avramopoulos, E. Varvarigos, P. Castoldi
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2018, Page(s) M4A.3, ISBN 978-1-943580-38-5
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2018.M4A.3

Experimental Demonstration of Network Automation Based on QoT Estimation & Monitoring in Both Single- & Multi-Domains

Author(s): N. Sambo, P. Giardina, I. Sartzetakis, A. Sgambelluri, F. Fresi, M. Dallaglio, G. Meloni, G. Bernini, K. Christodoulopoulos, P. Castoldi, E. Varvarigos
Published in: European Conference on Optical Communication” (ECOC), 2017
Publisher: -

Observe-Decide-Act: Experimental Demonstration of a Self-Healing Network

Author(s): K. Christodoulopoulos, N. Sambo, N. Argyris, P. Giardina, G. Kanakis, A. Kretsis, F. Fresi, A. Sgambelluri, G. Bernini, C. Delezoide, F. Cugini, H. Avramopoulos, E. Varvarigos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2018, Page(s) M3A.7, ISBN 978-1-943580-38-5
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2018.M3A.7

On the performance prediction of optical transmission systems in presence of filtering

Author(s): Camille Delezoide, Petros Ramantanis, Patricia Layec
Published in: 2017 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2017, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-5386-0859-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2017.8024998

Fiber type dependent benefits when deploying up-to-300Gb/s elastic transponders adapting to ageing of margins

Author(s): Jelena Pesic, Nicola Rossi, Thierry Zami
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2018, Page(s) M1A.2, ISBN 978-1-943580-38-5
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2018.M1A.2

Cross-layer optimization: Network cost vs. physical layer margins

Author(s): P. Soumplis, P. Pananikolaou, K. Christodoulopoulos, N. Argyris, C. Spatharakis, S. Dris, H. Avramopoulos, E. Varvarigos
Published in: 2015 17th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-4673-7880-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193690

Cross-layer, dynamic network orchestration, leveraging software-defined optical performance monitors

Author(s): A. Di Giglio, P. Jenneve, H. Avramopoulos, G. Carrozzo, C. Spatharakis, J.-C. Antona, P. Kokkinos, E. Varvarigos, N. Sambo, A. Pagano, N. Argyris, G. Bernini, K. Christodoulopoulos, S. Dris, P. Castoldi, J. Pesic, Y. Pointurier, C. Delezoide
Published in: 2015 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies, 2015, Page(s) 4 .-4 ., ISBN 978-1-78561-068-4
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2015.0109

Exploiting Network Kriging for Fault Localization

Author(s): Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Nicola Sambo, Emmanuel (Manos) Varvarigos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2016, Page(s) W1B.5, ISBN 978-1-943580-07-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.W1B.5

Receiver Architecture with Filter for Power-Efficient Drop&Waste Networks

Author(s): Filippo Cugini, Claudio Porzi, Nicola Sambo, Antonella Bogoni, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2016, Page(s) W2A.41, ISBN 978-1-943580-07-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.W2A.41

Faster return of investment in WDM networks when elastic transponders dynamically fit ageing of link margins

Author(s): Jelena Pesic, Thierry Zami, Petros Ramantanis, sebastien bigo
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2016, Page(s) M3K.2, ISBN 978-1-943580-07-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.M3K.2

A monitoring architecture for self-configurable optical networks

Author(s): P. Castoldi, G. Bernini, K. Christodoulopoulos, F. Cugini, N. Sambo
Published in: 2015 17th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-4673-7880-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193583

Design of Low-margin Optical Networks

Author(s): Yvan Pointurier
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2016, Page(s) Tu3F.5, ISBN 978-1-943580-07-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.Tu3F.5

"Operating a network close to the “zero margin” regime thanks to elastic devices"

Author(s): Jelena Pesic, Annalisa Morea
Published in: 2015 17th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015, Page(s) 1-1, ISBN 978-1-4673-7880-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193719

Estimating QoT of Unestablished Lightpaths

Author(s): Ippokratis Sartzetakis, Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Christos P. Tsekrekos, Dimitrios Syvridis, Emmanuel (Manos) Varvarigos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2016, Page(s) Tu3F.2, ISBN 978-1-943580-07-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.Tu3F.2

Why Pulse Shape for Cost-sensitive Metro Networks Should Differ from Optimal Pulse Shape for Long-haul Networks

Author(s): Philippe Jennevé, Annalisa Morea, Camille Delezoide, Sébastien Bigo
Published in: Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2015, 2015, Page(s) AS3E.2, ISBN 978-1-943580-06-4
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/ACPC.2015.AS3E.2

Code-adaptive transmission accounting for filtering effects in EON

Author(s): Gianluca Meloni, Luca Potı, Nicola Sambo, Francesco Fresi, Fabio Cavaliere
Published in: 2015 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2015, Page(s) 222-226, ISBN 978-3-9018-8272-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ONDM.2015.7127302

Hierarchical monitoring architecture and OAM Handler

Author(s): N. Sambo, F. Cugini, A. Sgambelluri, P. Castoldi
Published in: 2015 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015, Page(s) 1-3, ISBN 978-8-4608-1741-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341672

YANG Model and NETCONF Protocol for Control and Management of Elastic Optical Networks

Author(s): Matteo Dallaglio, Nicola Sambo, Jobaida Akhtar, Filippo Cugini, Piero Castoldi
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2016, Page(s) W3F.5, ISBN 978-1-943580-07-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.W3F.5

Joint Multilayer Planning of Survivable Elastic Optical Networks

Author(s): Panos Papanikolaou, Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Emmanuel (Manos) Varvarigos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2016, Page(s) M2K.3, ISBN 978-1-943580-07-1
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2016.M2K.3

ORCHESTRA - Optical performance monitoring enabling flexible networking

Author(s): K. Christodoulopoulos, P. Kokkinos, A. Di Giglio, A. Pagano, N. Argyris, C. Spatharakis, S. Dris, H. Avramopoulos, J. C. Antona, C. Delezoide, P. Jenneve, J. Pesic, Y. Pointurier, N. Sambo, F. Cugini, P. Castoldi, G. Bernini, G. Carrozzo, E. Varvarigos
Published in: 2015 17th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-4673-7880-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193584

Management of sliceable transponder with NETCONF and YANG

Author(s): Matteo Dallaglio, Nicola Sambo, Filippo Cugini, Piero Castoldi
Published in: 2016 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2016, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4673-9988-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ONDM.2016.7494062

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (1)

Method for managing a telecommunication network

Application/Publication number: Italy 102016000096594
Date: 2016-09-27