Secure information exchange between optical network digital twin and optical transport network

Abstract

This paper explores the role of data spaces in enabling secure, interoperable data exchange between Network Digital Twins and SDN Controllers. This approach emphasizes data space connectors for faster, scalable, and flexible integration of multiple components across digital ecosystems to work in unison. The proposed approach is to use a common trusted platform (in this paper, the platform used is TRUE Connector) which is responsible for secure information exchange between components(e.g: SDN Controller, Network Digital Twins, Software applications, etc.) in a digital ecosystem, thus encouraging collaboration between multiple technology vendors to provide more efficient network services and encourage interoperability.

The research leading to this publication has been partially financed by the Horizon Europe COBALT Project (101119602) and by Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital and the European Union-Next GenerationEU in the frameworks of the Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia and of the Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia trough UNICO-5G I+D 6GMICROSDN project under references TSI063000-2021-19, TSI-063000-2021-20, TSI-063000-2021-21 MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER/UE and by the RELAMPAGO project (Grant PID2021-127916OB-I00), funded by MICIU/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF/EU.

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