Related Sites

Related Projects

Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure (HOPI):

• http://hopi.internet2.edu

National LambdaRail (NLR):

• http://www.nlr.net

CHEETAH project (PI: Malathi Veeraraghavan):

• http://cheetah.cs.virginia.edu
• http://www.ece.virginia.edu/~mv/html-files/research.html

DOE UltraScience Net

• http://www.csm.ornl.gov/ultranet/

CANARIE User Controlled Light Paths (UCLP):

• http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/

SURFnet

• http://www.surfnet.nl/en/

Global Lambda Integrated Facility:

• http://www.glif.is/

CARISMA (Conexión y acceso a red Iri2 mediante anillo óptico multicanal):

• http://carisma.ccaba.upc.es

TeraFlow Testbed

• http://www.teraflowtestbed.net/

Network Mark-up Language Working Group (NML-WG)

• https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/nml-wg

UltraGrid

• http://ultragrid.east.isi.edu
• https://www.sitola.cz/igrid/index.php/UltraGrid

RSVP signalling

• KOM-RSVP Engine, the original code base DRAGON has extended to support GMPLS and RSVP-TE:
  • http://www.kom.e-technik.tu-darmstadt.de/rsvp
• Open-source RSVP implementation overview:
  • http://www.isi.edu/div7/rsvp/release.html
• IANA - RSVP parameters (class numbers and C-types reference):
  • http://www.iana.org/assignments/rsvp-parameters
• RSVP Overview:
  • http://www2.rad.com/networks/1997/rsvp/rsvp_toc.html#TOC

OSPF routing

• GNU Zebra - open-source routing software implementation (OSPF, BGP, RIP, etc):
  • DRAGON has extended Zebra's ospfd to support GMPLS routing and OSPF-TE
  • http://www.zebra.org
• Quagga - a fork of Zebra with a more active community:
  • http://www.quagga.net/devel.php
• XORP: eXtensible Open Router Platform - another open-source routing software implementation
  • http://www.xorp.org/
• John Moy's open-source OSPF daemon, used by Zebra and Quagga:
  • http://www.ospf.org/

Other Informational Links

• MPLS Resource Center: MPLS Standards
  • http://www.mplsrc.com/standards.shtml
• IANA Assignments
  • Protocol numbers: http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers
• NIST-GLASS (GMPLS Lightwave Agile Switching Simulator)
  • http://dns.antd.nist.gov/glass/Main.htm
• Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp)
  • http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ccamp-charter.html
• mpls-linux: An MPLS stack for Linux
  • http://mpls-linux.sourceforge.net/
• MPLS IETF Working Group:
  • http://cell.onecall.net/cell-relay/archives/mpls/mpls.index.html
• JunOS and GMPLS:
  • GMPLS Phase 1:
    • http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos55/feature-guide55/feature-guide-55.pdf
  • Next-generation GMPLS:
    • http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos62/feature-guide-62/html/fg-gmpls.html
• tcpdump:
  • http://www.tcpdump.org:
  • tcpdump-3.8.3 and later supports RSVP protocol decoding with -vvv on the command line
• high-speed TCP performance:
  • Matt Mathis paper on the theoretic performance of TCP:
    • http://www.psc.edu/networking/papers/model_ccr97.ps
    • model_ccr97.pdf: Matt Mathis paper on theoretic maximum performance of TCP
  • Dunigan's Network Peformance Links:
    • http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~dunigan/netperf/netlinks.html
• CS856 - Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems: Internet Transport Performance
  • http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~mkarsten/cs856/reading.html
  • Author of KOM-RSVP runs this page -- has a few links regarding inter-domain routing
• Optical Design Considerations for Transparent Reconfigurable Metro DWDM Networks
  • http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/FNC/Whitepapers/OpticalDesign_wp.pdf
• General information on fiber optics:
  • http://www.fiber-optics.info/
• Intro to fiber optics, lots of info on polishing, APC, SPC, PC, etc...
  • http://www.siifiber.com/html/intro/index.htm
• Juniper GMPLS feature guide:
  • http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos63/feature-guide-63/html/fg-gmpls.html
• csoap/libsoap SOAP client/server library for C
  • http://csoap.sourceforge.net
• easysoap SOAP library for C++
  • http://easysoap.sourceforge.net/
• Jeroen van der Ham, Network Description Language (NDL) based on Resource Description Format (RDF)
  • new: http://www.science.uva.nl/research/sne/ndl/
  • old: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~vdham/index.html
• ES.net 10-GigE perf box specifications
  • https://performance.es.net/10ge/PMP.html