Abstract
Virtualization is an essential concept which plays a major role in Cloud computing for resource sharing on the global internet. This paper proposes the optical cloud virtualization platform (OCVP), as the mediation layer which provides Network as a service (NaaS) to cloud computing by exploiting the functionality provided by optical control plane (CP) enabled IP-over-WDM networks. The optical CVP adopts a different approach that may be called undirected signalling to the optical CP. In fact, an application requests end-to-end network services in terms of end user addresses and perceived QoS parameters such as throughput, transfer delay, blocking probability and the average load share, to the service elements controlling the edge node of the transport network serving its access networks without any knowledge of the transport network infrastructure. The simulation of optical CP on optical CVP shows that the performance of optical cloud is good in terms of end-to-end delay and related QoS parameters.