Abstract—Telecom technologies have been developed very fast in these years. To meet the new trends and requirements of telecom applications, the optical transport network needs to be restructured with more dynamic, more cost-efficient, softer and more intelligent technologies. SDN accompanied with OpenFlow protocol is a good choice. In this paper, we study the optical transport network with intelligence view, and detailed the intelligence requirement gaps between current optical transport networks and new trends of telecom applications firstly, then detailed what major intelligent technologies can be used to build such an optical transport networks and survey current innovative researches for solving such gaps, and finally discuss the potential intelligence technologies which will be used to optimize the SDN optical networks in the next step.

Index Terms—Intelligent, OpenFlow, optical transport, SDN, algorithms.

Xu Chen is with the Premier Farnell, Chengdu 610073, China (e-mail: cdcxchenxu@gmail.com).
Yong Jian Zhang is with University of International Relation, Beijing 10086, China (e-mail: zyjbaba@163.com).

Cite:Xu Chen and Yongjian Zhang, "Intelligence on Optical Transport SDN," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 5-8, 2015.