Author(s)

Fangyuan Xing¹, Hongxi Yin^1*, Bin Wu¹, Jianxin Liu¹, Ming Li¹, Jingchao Wang²

¹Laboratory of Optical Communications and Photonic Technology, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
²Institute of China Electronic System Engineering Company, Beijing, China.

Space information network is used for real time acquiring, transmitting and processing the space information on the space platform, which provides significant communication services for communication, navigation positioning and science exploration. In this paper, the architecture of Software Defined Space Optical Network (SDSON) based on cloud platform is designed by means of Software Defined Optical Network (SDON) and cloud services. The new architecture combining centralized and distributed management-control mechanism is a multi-layer and multi-domain architecture with powerful computing and storage ability. Moreover, reliable service and unreliable service communication models employed in the space information network are proposed considering the characteristic of Disruption/Delay Tolerant Network (DTN). Finally, the functional verification and demonstration are performed on our optical experimental network platform.

Space Information Network, SDON, Cloud Control Plane, Communication Model

Xing, F. , Yin, H. , Wu, B. , Liu, J. , Li, M. and Wang, J. (2016) Design and Experimental Demonstration of Software Defined Space Optical Network (SDSON) Architecture Based on Cloud Platform. Journal of Computer and Communications, 4, 7-13. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2016.43002.