A survey of reconfigurable optical networks

MN Hall, KT Foerster, S Schmid, R Durairajan - Optical Switching and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

Enabling {high-quality} untethered virtual reality

O Abari, D Bharadia, A Duffield, D Katabi - 14th USENIX Symposium on …, 2017 - usenix.org
Today's virtual reality (VR) headsets require a cable connection to a PC or game console.
This cable significantly limits the player's mobility and, hence, her VR experience. The high …

Expanding across time to deliver bandwidth efficiency and low latency

WM Mellette, R Das, Y Guo, R McGuinness… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Datacenters need networks that support both low-latency and high-bandwidth packet
delivery to meet the stringent requirements of modern applications. We present Opera, a …

The features, hardware, and architectures of data center networks: A survey

T Chen, X Gao, G Chen - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
The rapid development of cloud computing in recent years has deeply affected our lifestyles.
As core infrastructures of cloud computing, data centers have gained widespread attention …

Mmtag: A millimeter wave backscatter network

MH Mazaheri, A Chen, O Abari - … of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in IoT, machine learning and cloud computing have placed a huge strain
on wireless networks. In particular, many emerging applications require streaming rich …

Wireless data center networks: Advances, challenges, and opportunities

A Celik, B Shihada, MS Alouini - arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11717, 2018 - arxiv.org
Data center networks (DCNs) are essential infrastructures to embrace the era of highly
diversified massive amount of data generated by emerging technological applications. In …

Millimeter wave communications: From point-to-point links to agile network connections

O Abari, H Hassanieh, M Rodriguez… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies promise to revolutionize wireless networks by
enabling multi-gigabit data rates. However, they suffer from high attenuation, and hence …

Creating the perfect illusion: What will it take to create life-like virtual reality headsets?

E Cuervo, K Chintalapudi, M Kotaru - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
As Virtual Reality (VR) Head Mounted Displays (HMD) push the boundaries of technology,
in this paper, we try and answer the question," What would it take to make the visual …

Following the shadow: Agile 3-D beam-steering for 60 GHz wireless networks

A Zhou, L Wu, S Xu, H Ma, T Wei… - IEEE INFOCOM 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
60 GHz networks, with multi-Gbps bitrate, are considered as the enabling technology for
emerging applications such as wireless Virtual Reality (VR) and 4K/8K real-time Miracast …

Neural network meets DCN: Traffic-driven topology adaptation with deep learning

M Wang, Y Cui, S Xiao, X Wang, D Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The emerging optical/wireless topology reconfiguration technologies have shown great
potential in improving the performance of data center networks. However, it also poses a big …