The exponential increase in the data center network traffic has posed new challenges for
achieving high throughput, low latency and energy consumption. To address these …

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 …

Current data centers (DCs) networks rely on electronic switching and point-to-point
interconnects. When considering future DC requirements, point-to-point interconnects will …

Data-intensive applications that operate on large volumes of data have motivated a fresh
look at the design of data center networks. The first wave of proposals focused on designing …

Applying optical switching to data center networks can greatly expand network bandwidth
and reduce electrical power consumption, both of which are needed to meet the explosive …

The ever-growing society of information has its backbone on a complex network of optical
links among nodes where data are stored and processed. These nodes are mostly …

Data center networks are facing growing challenges to deliver higher bandwidth efficiency,
lower latency, better flexibility, and lower cost. Various optical interconnect schemes have …

We review different solutions for realizing large-port-count optical crossconnects (OXCs) for
data centers and examine the impact of switch reconfiguration time on the throughput …

In this letter, a high fan-out, scalable, and cluster-based optical interconnect (FSCOI) for data
center networks is proposed. FSCOI consists of an optical switch and clusters. Compared to …

Optical communication technologies are playing more and more important roles in both intra-
and inter-data center networks. Particularly, optical switching network architectures for the …