Abstract: Thanks to the development of the automatic and distributed control plane (ASON and GMPLS standards), optical transport networks are able to provide bandwidth-on-demand services quickly and efficiently. But for these services to be really interesting to users, the capability of seamlessly operating the network across multiple administrative domains should be developed. Multi-domain routing in ASON is a new challenging topic, especially if the target is a scalable solution. This article investigates, in particular, the application of aggregation ...
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Computer network