Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks: Architectures, Protocols, Control and Management (CORONET)
Program Manager: Dr. Adel Saleh
The objective of the CORONET program is to revolutionize the operation, performance, survivability and security of the United States' global inter-networking infrastructure. In particular, the program's focus is on advancing the network architecture, protocols, and control and management for highly dynamic, multi-terabit core optical networks.
The program targets a global network that should enable up to a ten-fold increase in aggregate network demand over today's state-of-the-art networks while sharply reducing the cost, size, and power requirements per bit, and greatly simplifying network operations. The network should support very fast service set-up/tear-down to allow low-latency, collaborative and grid-computing applications across the globe. The network also should enable very fast and efficient recovery from multiple concurrent network failures. Delivering a cost-effective, capacity-efficient solution that can support an order-of-magnitude increase in network demand and a high degree of network agility and resiliency will require new paradigms in areas such as cross-layer traffic processing and capacity management, as well as significant advancements in network operation.
In addition to serving as the next-generation global inter-networking infrastructure for the Department of Defense, it is essential that the results of this program be suitable for commercial deployment as well. The target deployment time frame is about five years in the future.
