A Conceptual Framework for Object-Oriented Modeling of GMPLS Networks

Abstract

We present a conceptual framework for object-oriented modeling of GMPLS-based networks and the solutions to their associated problems. The framework is targeted towards a larger scale initiative by us for developing a modeling language that can help with conceptual modeling of typical GMPLS network design problems. While there are different pieces of literature available that provide modeling languages for other application areas, there are not many languages for use in modeling general networking problems. Our work is an important step forward to address this deficiency. Our proposed framework takes some existing modeling language notations and extends them to support the modeling of GMPLS networks.