Design and evaluation of a flexible-bandwidth OFDM-based intra-data center interconnect

PN Ji, D Qian, K Kanonakis, C Kachris… - IEEE Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data center networks are facing growing challenges to deliver higher bandwidth efficiency,
lower latency, better flexibility, and lower cost. Various optical interconnect schemes have …

PODCA: A passive optical data center architecture

M Xu, C Liu, S Subramaniam - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical interconnects for data centers can offer reduced power consumption, low latency,
and high scalability, compared to electrical interconnects. However, active optical …

PODCA: A passive optical data center network architecture

M Xu, C Liu, S Subramaniam - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical interconnects have gained great attention recently as a promising solution offering
high throughput, low latency, scalability, and reduced energy consumption compared to …

ROTOS: a reconfigurable and cost-effective architecture for high-performance optical data center networks

X Xue, F Yan, K Prifti, F Wang, B Pan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast and high capacity optical switching techniques have the potential to enable low latency
and high throughput optical data center networks (DCNs) to afford the rapid increasing traffic …

Experimental demonstration of flexible bandwidth optical data center core network with all-to-all interconnectivity

Z Cao, R Proietti, M Clements… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
This paper proposes and demonstrates a flexible-bandwidth optical interconnect
architecture for data centers exploiting wavelength routing in arrayed waveguide grating …

RDON: a rack-scale disaggregated data center network based on a distributed fast optical switch

X Guo, F Yan, J Wang, G Exarchakos… - Journal of Optical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aiming to solve the low utilization and high operational cost in current data centers and the
diversified resource requirements for different application types, we propose and investigate …

HiFOST: A scalable and low-latency hybrid data center network architecture based on flow-controlled fast optical switches

F Yan, X Xue, N Calabretta - Journal of Optical Communications …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To solve the bandwidth and latency issues in current hierarchical data center network (DCN)
architectures based on electrical switches, we propose a novel hybridDCNarchitecture …

Hybrid optical switching for data center networks

M Fiorani, S Aleksic, M Casoni - Journal of Electrical and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Current data centers networks rely on electronic switching and point‐to‐point interconnects.
When considering future data center requirements, these solutions will raise issues in terms …

All-optical programmable disaggregated data centre network realized by FPGA-based switch and interface card

Y Yan, GM Saridis, Y Shu, BR Rofoee… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
This paper reports an FPGA-based switch and interface card (SIC) and its application
scenario in an all-optical, programmable disaggregated data center network (DCN). Our …

Towards petabit/s all-optical flat data center networks based on WDM optical cross-connect switches with flow control

W Miao, F Yan, N Calabretta - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scaling the capacity while maintaining low latency and power consumption is a challenge
for hierarchical data center networks (DCNs) based on electrical switches. In this work we …