Application Specific Topology Builder (ASTB) Overview ASTB provides an API which is utilized by applications to request network services. Applications can use this ...

All-optical, Low Latency High Definition Collaboration End-to-end native SMPTE 292M transport Media devices are directly integrated into the DRAGON environment via ...

Papers An Efficient Scheduling Scheme for On-Demand Lightpath Reservations in Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks Xi Yang, Lu Shen, Ajay Todimala, Byrav Ramamurthy ...

Announcements

Applications TOC Overview Two example applications, which are currently being integrated into the DRAGON network, include electronic Very Long Baseling Interferometry ...

Architecture jpg Overview The DRAGON Architecture is similar to contemporary R E networks in the context of topology and administrative organization. It consists ...

Events Chinese American Networking Symposium 2005 DRAGON Presentation at CANS 2005 November 1-3, 2005 Shenzhen, China http://cans2005.cstnet.cn Full text: PDF no ...

Papers Common Service Definition Jerry Sobieski, Tom Lehman Mar. 2005 13 pages Full text: PDF Abstract One of the basic obstacles to provisioning end-to-end “light ...

Dark Fiber Fiber Distances Between DRAGON Sites Full text: PDF Color Type Provider Purple Allwave Qwest Green SMF-28 FiberGate Aqua SMF-28 Level3

Demos Supercomputing 2004, Pittsburgh, PA iGrid 2005, San Diego, CA Supercomputing 2005, Seattle, WA

Papers Deployment of the GMPLS Control Plane for Grid Applications in Experimental High-Performance Networks Ibrahim W. Habib, Qiang Song, Zhaoming Li, Nageswara ...

Papers DRAGON: A Framework for Service Provisioning in Heterogenous Grid Networks Tom Lehman, Jerry Sobieski, Bijan Jabbari IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 44 ...

Papers Dynamic Provisioning of Light Path Services for Radio Astronomy Applications Jerry Sobieski, Tom Lehman, Chester Ruszczyk, Rick Summerhill, Alan Whitney Future ...

Radio Astronomy: e-VLBI Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) has been used by radio astronomers for more than 30 years as one of the most powerful techniques ...

Embedded !VLSR TOC Overview The DRAGON VLSR software requires only minimal resources in terms of CPU and memory. Running the !VLSR code in an embedded environment ...

Events Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) Workshop #7 July 19-20, 2008 University of Nebraska Nebraska Union Lincoln, Nebraska Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network ...

George Mason University Websites: http://www.gmu.edu http://cnl.gmu.edu/dragon

George Washington University Website: http://www.gwu.edu

High Definition Video Applications: HD-CVAN The goals of the High Definition Collaboration and Visual Area Networking (HD-CVAN) application are to utilize the DRAGON ...

Haystack Observatory Overview The MIT Haystack observatory is about an hour outside of Boston. The dish antenna inside the radome (a golf ball like structure but ...

IETF RFCs and Drafts TABLE{ columnwidths "15 ,15 ,60 ,10 " tablewidth "100 " } Subject Name Notes Date RSVP Signaling RFC2205 Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP ...

Events iGrid 2005 Dynamic Provisioning of Light Path Services for Radio Astronomy Applications A demonstration of global e-science collaboration leveraging experimental ...

Events The International Conference on IP+ Optical Network (iPOP 2005) DRAGON: Dynamic Resource Allocation over GMPLS Optical Networks Jerry Sobieski (UMD/MAX) February ...

ITU Recommendations G.807 Requirements for automatic switched transport networks (ASTN) G.8080 Architecture for the automatic switched optical networks (ASON) G.8081 ...

Events IEEE INFOCOM 2006 !!{ conference webpage } High-Speed Networking Workshop: The Terabits Challenge GMPLS-Based Dynamic Provisioning and Traffic Engineering ...

University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) East DRAGON GMPLS Control Plane Software website: http://dragon.east.isi.edu Organization ...

Events Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) Workshop #5 and #6 Designing and Engineering Dynamic Circuit Network: A Hands-On Workshop GMPLS Control Plane for the ...

Events Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) Workshop #7 Designing and Engineering Dynamic Circuit Network: A Hands-On Workshop GMPLS Control Plane for the Research ...

Events Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Services (DCS) Workshop #1 Designing and Engineering Dynamic Circuit Services: A Hands-On Workshop GMPLS Control Plane for the Research ...

Events Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Services (DCS) Workshop Materials for Workshop #3 GMPLSHands-OnWorkshopW3.3.ppt: GMPLS Hands-On Workshop presentation slides in ...

Events Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Services (DCS) Workshop #2 Designing and Engineering Dynamic Circuit Services: A Hands-On Workshop GMPLS Control Plane for the Research ...

Events Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Services (DCS) Workshop #3 Designing and Engineering Dynamic Circuit Services: A Hands-On Workshop GMPLS Control Plane for the Research ...

Events Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Services (DCS) Workshop #4 Designing and Engineering Dynamic Circuit Services: A Hands-On Workshop GMPLS Control Plane for the Research ...

Events JGN2 Symposium 2007 !!{ conference webpage } Real-time e-VLBI demo over the intercontinental baseline (9500km) Jan 17-19, 2007 Hiroshima, Japan http://www ...

Events Joint Techs GMPLS Tutorial and R E Network Implementation February 5, 2006, 1:00pm 4:15pm Albuquerque, New Mexico http://jointtechs.es.net Speakers Wes Doonan ...

Key Contributors Leading Institutions RENDERLIST{"thread"} University of Maryland, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Jerry Sobieski Chris Tracy Fiona Leung Aihua Guo Don Riley ...

Mailing Lists DRAGON maintains several mailing lists for keeping participants and other interested parties up-to-date with the latest information. SoftwareAnnounceMailingList ...

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Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) GigaPOP Overview The MAX Research Initiatives are intended to identify emerging trends and technologies that will be required to deliver ...

Monitoring Real-time Performance Monitoring https://network.dragon.maxgigapop.net/realtime.html Cricket Performance Monitoring https://network.dragon.maxgigapop.net ...

Movaz Networks Website: http://www.movaz.com

Network Aware Resource Broker (NARB) Overview Routing, path computation, and signalling on an inter-domain basis across topologies which include a heterogeneous mix ...

NASA Ames Research Center http://www.arc.nasa.gov

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Websites: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov http://cisto.gsfc.nasa.gov/IRAD Lambda.html Related websites: Goddard Institute for Space ...

Events NASA Optical Network Testbeds Workshop 2005 DRAGON Presentation at NASA ONT 2005 September 12-14, 2005 NASA Ames Moffett Field, California http://www.nren ...

NCSA Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science, and Software (ACCESS) Websites: http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

National Science Foundation Website: http://www.nsf.gov

Experimental Network Infrastructure TOC INCLUDE{OpticallySwitchedCore} INCLUDE{Architecture} INCLUDE{DarkFiber} INCLUDE{Monitoring} Mailing Lists See our Lists page ...

Network Operators (ops) Mailing List The ops mailing list is for network operators who want to receive service-affecting notifications for planned outages, maintenance ...

News and Press Releases TOC Press Releases November 16, 2005: Internet2 et al. Internet2 Demonstrates Optical Networking Firsts at SC 05 Supercomputing Conference ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation Website: http://www.northropgrumman.com/

OIF Implementation Agreements Published at http://www.oiforum.com/public/impagreements.html UNI 1.0 Signaling Specification OIF-UNI-01.0 User Network Interface ...

Optically Switched Core As part of the DRAGON project, we are building a optically switched network in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. The purpose of this ...

Overview TOC Project Abstract The purpose of the DRAGON project is to create dynamic, deterministic, and manageable end-to-end network transport services for high ...

Papers Policy-Based Resource Management and Service Provisioning in GMPLS Networks Authors: Xi Yang, Tom Lehman, Chris Tracy, Jerry Sobieski, Payam Torab, Shujia ...

Papers Policy-Based Resource Management and Service Provisioning in GMPLS Networks Xi Yang, Tom Lehman, Chris Tracy, Jerry Sobieski, Payam Torab, Shujia Gong, Bijan ...

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Press Release July 28, 2005: NASA GSFC L-Net Initiative and DRAGON Collaboration 10 Gigbit/s Coast-to-Coast Network and Demonstration between NASA GSFC and University ...

October 19th, 2005: Science Grid This Week Ref: http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/2005/1019/evlbi igrid more.html INCLUDE{"http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/2005/1019 ...

September 5, 2005: Network World Ref: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090505-lambdarail.html NetworkWorld.com Wide Area Network Fiber-optic research net gains ...

November 16, 2005: Internet2 et al. Ref: https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/i2-news/2005-11/msg00006.html Ref: http://eetimes.com/press releases/prnewswire/showPressRelease ...

Press Release August 12, 2005: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) Ref: http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id ...

October 31, 2005: Lightwave Magazine Ref: http://lw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article Display.cfm?Section ARTCL SubSection Display PUBLICATION ID 13 ARTICLE ID 240260 ...

January 6, 2004: Light Reading Ref: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc id 45518 site lightreading Movaz Tames Dragon January 06, 2004 PR Newswire ATLANTA ...

February 23, 2004: Federal Computer Week Ref: http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0223/tec-nasa-02-23-04.asp 2005: The year of the DRAGON BY Michael Hardy Feb. 23 ...

DRAGON Press Releases Movaz Networks Internet2

DRAGON Project Summary The objective of the Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks (DRAGON) Project is to create dynamic, deterministic, and manageable ...

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Related Sites Related Projects Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure (HOPI): http://hopi.internet2.edu National LambdaRail (NLR): http://www.nlr.net CHEETAH project ...

SVN Shorthand for Subversion From http://subversion.tigris.org/ : The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement ...

Services and Capabilities

DRAGON GMPLS Control Plane Software This DRAGON GMPLS Control Plane software is maintained on another Wiki. Please see the DRAGON Control Plane Software page maintained ...

Software Announce (sw-announce) Mailing List The sw-announce mailing list is a low volume mailing list to announce new DRAGON software versions. Subscribe at http ...

Software Development (sw-dev) Mailing List The sw-dev mailing list is for more conversational discussions among developers. This list includes every change made to ...

Standards TOC The DRAGON software does not attempt to implement every standard listed below, but standards of particular interest to us are listed below for reference ...

Events SuperComputing 2004 (SC2004) DRAGON Demonstrations as part of Xnet 2004 Real-time e-VLBI correlation dynamic inter-domain provisioning of an UltraGrid HD video ...

Events SuperComputing 2005 (SC2005) Hybrid Optical+Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) Dynamic Provisioning of Light Path Services for Radio Astronomy and Visualization ...

Events SuperComputing 2006 (SC2006) Xnet demo: DRAGON Dynamic Topologies November 11-17, 2006 Tampa, Florida http://sc06.supercomputing.org http://sc06.supercomputing ...

DRAGON Xnet demo TOC Overall description With the emergence of dynamic hybrid networks, e-science now has the raw materials to create new instruments for exploring ...

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UltraGrid: A High Definition Collaboratory From: http://ultragrid.east.isi.edu/ The goals of the UltraGrid project are to enhance the state of the art in high quality ...

United States Naval Observatory Website: http://www.usno.navy.mil

Events University of Amsterdam GMPLS Tutorial and R E Network Implementation April 19, 2006, 10:00am-3:30pm Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.science.uva.nl/ ...

Running DRAGON Software under User-Mode Linux (UML) TOC{depth "2" title "Contents:"} Overview DRAGON's GMPLS Control Plane software is intended to be run on multiple ...

Virtual Label Switch Router (VLSR) Overview An important objective for the DRAGON Architecture is to be able to provision across heterogenous network technologies ...

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TWiki's DRAGON web SCRIPTURL /view SCRIPTSUFFIX /DRAGON The DRAGON web of TWiki. TWiki is a Web-Based Collaboration Platform for the Corporate World. INCLUDE{" TWIKIWEB ...

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