PRIN 2022 - ZETON
Zero-Touch end-to-end Optical Networks (ZeTON)
The ZeTON project targets the design and demonstration of a novel optical transport architecture, relying on optical white box architectures, using pluggable optics.
The ZeTON project targets the application of Zero-Touch paradigm applied to the optical transport network.
The project is based on four main tasks:
1. Design a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and disaggregated optical network. In order to meet novel requirements in terms of bandwidth, latency, mobility, dynamicity, power-efficiency, innovative data and control plane technologies are envisaged, including pluggable-enabled packet-optical white boxes. ZeTON will study new models to enhance open white box and SDN solutions supporting AI-based predictive control.
2. Development of an end-to-end monitoring platform covering both optical and packet layers. To support the novel nodes a novel monitoring framework is needed. This will incude: (i) new monitoring methods for both transmission parameters (e.g., chromatic dispersion, pre-fec-BER, OSNR) and device operational data (e.g., temperature, current). (ii) novel monitoring drivers/agents to interface with switching elements and white boxes; (iii) a platform to gather, adapt and process monitoring data.
3. Design, implementation and validation of the service orchestration and infrastructure control system. Design, development and validation of a control plane system for the ZeTON infrastructure, able to deploy and manage the network services, including 5G services.
4. Build an AI-assisted framework for autonomous and dynamic network operations and ZTN. Development of autonomous networking implementing closed-control-loop automation collecting, analysing, making decisions, and acting on the network devices. Control-loops will be implemented at various levels, requiring the development of a distributed knowledge and decision-making engines that rely on the use of monitoring data and on the application of AI/ML. This way, the system will be able to address the traffic dynamicity, by selecting the appropriate transmission interface and by making transmission, routing and recovery decisions locally
ZeTON will consider the c/vRAN architecture scenario to target the deployment of cost-efficient and scalable 5G and beyond networks. Remote radio unit (RU), distributed unit (DU) and centralized unit (CU), will be interconnected with the novel packet-optical nodes, meeting end-to-end requirements in flexible and efficient way.
ENTE PROMOTORE: MUR
NOME PROGETTO: ZETON
PERIODO E DURATA: 24 mesi, 28/09/2023 – 27/09/2025
FINANZIAMENTO: € 43.215
COORDINATORI: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa
REFERENTI SSSA: Andrea Sgambelluri
