Phosphorus grid-enabled GMPLS control plane (G2MPLS): architectures, services, and interfaces

GMPLS is a Network Control Plane (NCP) architecture that implements the concept of Grid Network Services (GNS). In the Phosphorus framework, GNS allows the provisioning of network and Grid resources in a single-step through a set of seamlessly integrated procedures. The implementation of GNS poses a number of requirements on the Control Planes of the underlying network infrastructure. This article describes the GNS requirements such as Grid resource discovery, service resiliency, Authorization Authentication Accounting (AAA), and advance reservation services, which are the main trigger factors of the GMPLS control plane architectures (Overlay and Integrated), services procedures and the Gridenabled network interfaces provided by IST Phosphorus project.