This article discusses prospects and challenges of software defined elastic optical
networking for grid and cloud computing environments. We exploit OpenFlow-based unified …

To keep pace with the tremendous bandwidth growth in cloud networking, web-scale
providers, such as Microsoft, have been quick to adopt elastic features of modern optical …

Due to the high burstiness and high-bandwidth characteristics of the applications, data
center interconnection by elastic optical networks have attracted much attention of network …

This paper discusses new approaches of optical networking designed to meet exponentially
growing demands of data traffic and to support future generations of cloud computing. Future …

Data centers provide a volume of computation and storage resources for cloud-based
services, and generate very huge traffic in data center networks. Usually, data centers are …

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 …

Software-defined transport network for cloud computing Page 1 OTh1H.6.pdf OFC/NFOEC
Technical Digest © 2013 OSA Software-defined Transport Network for Cloud Computing …

Every day, customers across the globe connect to cloud service provider servers with
requests for diverse types of data, requiring instantaneous response times and seamless …

Current inter-data-center connections are configured as static big fat pipes, which entails
large bit rate over-provisioning and thus high operational costs for DC operators. On the …

As the infrastructure of cloud computing and big data, data centers have been deployed
widely. Then, how to make full use of the computing and storage resources in data centers …