Core Switching & Routing Working Group
The Core Switching and Routing Working Group considers components, technologies, systems, algorithms and protocols at the data link layer (L2), the network layer (L3) and the transport layer (L4) in the traditional OSI network protocol stack. The working group also investigates interactions with lower and higher layers and research efficiencies that can be obtained from cross-layer optimizations. Areas of interest may include:
- Network equipment architectures including switches and routers
- Low energy technologies including electronics and photonics
- Power measurements
- Energy and traffic monitoring
- Rate adaptation and dynamic reconfiguration of network equipment
- Network topologies and architectures
- Tradeoff between optical and electronic data transport
- Joint optical – IP network design
- New switching modes: optical label, burst, packet and flow switching
- Packet versus circuit-switched architectures
- Packet and frame aggregation
- Energy efficient and simplified routing
- Addressing
- Traffic engineering
- Bandwidth allocation and traffic grooming
- Energy-aware over-provisioning of network resources
- Efficient network protection and restoration
- Network management, operation and control
- Quality of service support
- Network-wide dynamic reconfiguration and control of network elements
- Separation of control and data planes
- Stability and robustness of networks
- Protocols and algorithms
- Efficient multi-casting
- Efficient and energy-optimal content distribution
- Integration of application and transport layers
- Modeling and simulations of networks
- Prototyping of key technology enablers
All GreenTouch experts interested in any of these technology areas are invited to participate in the Core Switching and Routing WG – send a request to be included.
