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 …

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 …

HOSA: Hybrid optical switch architecture for data center networks

M Imran, M Collier, P Landais, K Katrinis - Proceedings of the 12th ACM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Optical interconnect is a fundamental requisite to realize Internet-scale data centers due to
capabilities and benefits of optical devices. Optical interconnects are energy efficient and …

Centralized control plane for passive optical top-of-rack interconnects in data centers

Y Cheng, M Fiorani, L Wosinska… - 2016 IEEE Global …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To efficiently handle the fast growing traffic inside data centers, several optical interconnect
architectures have been recently proposed. However, most of them are targeting the …

A reconfigurable high-performance optical data center architecture

C Liu, M Xu, S Subramaniam - 2016 IEEE Global …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical data center network architectures are becoming attractive because of their low
energy consumption, large bandwidth, and low cabling complexity. In [1], an AWGR-based …

Passive optical interconnects at top of the rack for data center networks

Y Gong, Y Lu, X Hong, S He… - … Conference on Optical …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Limited scalability of the current commodity switches in terms of capacity and power
consumption becomes a bottleneck of the development of data center networks. To solve …

Optics in future data center networks

L Schares, DM Kuchta… - 2010 18th IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical interconnects offer significant advantages for future high performance data center
networks. Progress towards integrating new optical technologies deeper into systems is …

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 …

Thor: a scalable hybrid switching architecture for data centers

X Yu, H Xu, H Gu, H Lan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical interconnects are emerging as a high bandwidth and low energy alternative to
traditional electrical networks. However, most exiting designs put optical switching in the …