SDN-Based Packet Encapsulation, De-encapsulation and OA&M for Packet Transport Networks

• Main Authors: Hsu, Wen-Chun, 徐文俊
• Other Authors: Chen, Jyh-Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54yhn4

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 資訊學院資訊學程 === 104 === It will be a critical issue for operators to manage and operate 4G / 5G mobile communications backhaul networks with packet transmission networks (PTN), especially in large-scale deployment of 4G / LTE micro base stations based on the needs of the dynamic bandwidth scheduling. Operators are eager to find a solution that not only simplifies network management, but also reduces operating costs. By using SDN centralized control plane to provide an open and standard way to configure and manage data plane of backhaul network equipment, it is a highly potential technology that can be applied to the backhaul networks and PTN. To support SDN, equipment vendors need to support protocols such as OpenFlow in its control plane and network management system. In addition, it needs to update the data plane to make it compatible with OpenFlow. SDN and PTN will be the main technologies in the next decade, if the two can be combined together. It will have higher prospective value to next-generation network equipment. This thesis is a combination of PTN and SDN. We introduce PTN solutions to SDN devices and apply the solutions to next generation of 4G / 5G mobile communication backhaul networks to achieve a unified network management interface for heterogeneous equipment.