2007-6-4

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Explanations to OptiX ASON Protocols

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ASON Principle Review Explanations to the LMP Protocol Explanations to the RSVP Protocol

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NMS

 

MP
(Manage Plane) Network Management Interface NMI NMI

ASON: Automatic Switched Optical Network, Requirements defined by ITU-T. GMPLS: Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching, A series protocols (LMP, RSVP-TE, OSPF) defined by IETF.

CP
(Control Plane)

OCC OCC
NNI

OCC
 ASON/GMPLS Introduces control plane to ON. It s the first time to adopt dynamic switching function. Distributed control plane is the trend.

OCC

OCC

 

Connection Control Interface CCI NE NE CCI

TP

(Transport Plane) NE

NE

NE

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ASON Protocols
GMPLS: In a broad sense, the multi-service label switching protocol provides the functions of setting up, deleting and querying a connection, synchronization and restoration, rerouting protection. Moreover, it provides the service related functions.

OSPF-TE (routing): Flood and gather topology for calculating service path RSVP-TE (signaling): Establish and then maintain the service path LMP (link management): Discover the neighbors and links

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Relation Among the ASON Related Protocols

Routing protocols (OSPF,CSPF)
Flood, collect and compute the routing resources Service link information
Request for service path computation

Signaling protocol (RSVP-TE)

Automatically set up, delete and maintain fibers Control link information

Error locating information

Link management protocol (LMP)

Neighbor discovery, error locating, and link resource management

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ASON Principle Review Explanations to the LMP Protocol Explanations to the RSVP Protocol

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Explanations to the LMP Protocol

Control Channel Check Process Data Link Check Process TE Link Check Process

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Explanations to LMP Control Channel Check Process

Control Channel Management
Function Set up and maintain control channels between nodes. Implementation mode Inter-Node config message switching and a fast keep alive mechanism Control channel management contains the following contents: Setup of control channels Fast keep alive process Disabling of control channels

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Explanations to LMP Control Channel Check Process

A Case of the Setup Process of a Control Channel
Node A sends a Config message to Node B. If Node A receives the following information from Node B: The ConfigAck message indicates that the control channel is set up; If Node A receives the following information from Node B:The ConfigNAck message indicates that parameter negotiation fails.The control channel is not set up.

Setup a Control Channel between Node A and Node B

Config Config Config Config

ConfigAck/ConfigNack
Node A Node B

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 Preparations for the check:

Explanations to LMP Data Link Connectivity Check Data Link Connectivity Check
Node A sends BeginVerify and receives the BeginVerifyAck message.

between Node A and Node B

Begin Verify Begin VerifyAck Test TestStatusSuccess TestStatusAck Test TestStatusSuccess TestStatusAck
Connectivity Check

Check process
Node A keeps sending the Test message on the data link at specific time until it receives teststatussuccess or teststatufailure response on the control channel.

Check end
Node A sends the Endverify message and waits for the response. After Node A receives the EndVerifyAck message or the response times out, the check process ends.
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End Verify End VerifyAck

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Explanations to LMP Attribute Consistency Check of TE Link (Example)

Analysis on consistency check process of the TE link
Node A launches the check process by sending the LinkSummary message regularly. If Node A receives the LinkSummaryAck message, the consistency check succeeds if Node A receives the LinkSummaryNack message, the consistency check fails. TE Link Consistency Check between Node A and Node B

LinkSummary LinkSummary LinkSummary LinkSummary LinkSummaryAck

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ASON Principle Review Explanations to the LMP Protocol Explanations to the RSVP Protocol

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Explanationss to the RSVP Protocol Resource reservation protocol (RSVP)

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Explanations to RSVP Service Setup Process

Path Resv Resv Path

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Explanations to RSVP Service Setup Process

Primary node intermediate node intermediate node end node

Path message (new) Ack

Path message (new)

Ack

Path message (new)

Resv(with Ack) Resv Resv Ack Path message (enable alarm monitor) Ack
Path message (enable alarm monitor)

Ack

Ack

Ack

Path message (enable alarm monitor)

Resv(with Ack) Ack

Resv Resv Ack Ack

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Explanations to RSVP Service Deletion Process

Primary node
Start DIP Timer
Path message (close ALARM monitor) Path message (close ALARM monitor)

Middle node

Middle node

End node

Ack Graceful deletion

Ack

Path message (close ALARM monitor)

PathErr PathErr Release resource Ack Stop DIP Timer DIP Timer Expired PathTear Release resource Ack Forced deletion Ack Release resource

PathErr(with Ack) Ack Release resource Release resource

PathTear Release resource Ack

PathTear Release resource Ack

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Explanations to the RSVP Protocol-Summary of General Knowledge

For LSP setup, deletion, rerouting, optimization or attribute change, the initiating node is the primary node of the service. The intermediate node and end node are passive. When they receive the message from the upstream node, they perform relevant operations.

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