Flexible low-latency metro-access converged network architecture based on optical time slice switching

J Li, N Hua, Z Zhong, Y Yu, X Zheng… - Journal of optical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The “pay-as-you-grow” cloud computing model has become popular for today's enterprises.
Cloud computing not only frees end users from complex operations, but also allows higher …

Flexible network architecture and provisioning strategy for geographically distributed metro data centers

M Fiorani, P Samadi, Y Shen, L Wosinska… - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The fifth generation of mobile networks (5G) is expected to introduce new services with strict
end-to-end delay requirements. For this reason, service providers and network operators are …

Precise time distribution and synchronization for low latency slotted optical metro-access networks

B Pan, X Xue, X Guo, N Calabretta - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Future optical metro access networks will connect heterogeneous access technologies like
beyond 5G radio access networks and edge computing interconnections. These access …

Enabling low latency at large-scale data center and high-performance computing interconnect networks using fine-grained all-optical switching technology

N Hua, Z Zhong, X Zheng - 2017 International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In large-scale data center (DC) and high performance computing (HPC) interconnect
networks, end-to-end latency becomes a fatal problem due to the processing and queuing …

Adaptive DC interconnection provisioning in distributed all-optical micro-datacenters using holistically SDN orchestration for dynamic access

X Cao, G Chen, I Popescu, H Guo, N Yoshikane… - Photonic network …, 2018 - Springer
The metro-embedded datacenter (ME-DC) architecture which is based on micro-DCs (mDC)
is introduced and implemented to deliver more flexible services with less access latency …

Experimental assessment of automatic optical metro edge computing network for beyond 5G applications and network service composition

B Pan, F Yan, X Guo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The upcoming 5G and beyond 5G heterogeneous applications with different quality of
service (QoS) will impose strict latency, bandwidth, and flexibility requirements on optical …

[PDF][PDF] Time-aware Software Defined Networking for OpenFlow-based Datacenter Optical Networks.

H Yang, J Zhang, Y Zhao, Y Ji, J Han, Y Lin… - Netw. Protoc …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Data center networks are considered to make use of the computing and storage resources in
data centers, which include intra-datacenter and inter-datacenter networks. Both of them will …

Fine-grained all-optical switching based on optical time slice switching for hybrid packet-OCS intra-data center networks

Y Li, N Hua, X Zheng - 2016 Optical Fiber Communications …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a hybrid packet-OCS intra-datacenter network architecture with bufferless sub-
wavelength all-optical time slice switching enabled by high-precision time synchronization …

A Scalable Optical Intra-Cluster Data Center Network with an Efficient WDMA protocol: Performance and Power Consumption Study

P Baziana, G Drainakis - 2021 30th Wireless and Optical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical switching technology arises as the dominant technology for data center networks
(DCNs), grace to its inherent capability to serve time-sensitive traffic with low power …

Impact of metro-embedded data centers on metropolitan network design and traffic profile

I Popescu, X Cao, G Chen, H Guo… - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Traditional data centers (DCs) that are located in distant areas usually lack flexibility and
also have long service latency for metro users. On the other hand, the recently introduced …