Optical Data Center Networking: A Comprehensive Review on Traffic, Switching, Bandwidth Allocation, and Challenges

PA Baziana - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The accelerated growth of data traffic in data centers (DCs) globally is driven by the
dominance of multiple emerging data-intensive applications hosted by edge/cloud DCs …

Resource allocation in slotted optical data center networks

K Kontodimas, K Christodoulopoulos… - … on Optical Network …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of all-optical switching in data center interconnection networks (DCN) is key
for addressing several of the shortcomings of state-of-the-art electronic switched solutions …

Accelerating the scheduling of the network resources of the next-generation optical data centers

G Patronas, N Vlassopoulos, P Bellos, D Reisis - Parallel Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Data centers (DCs) play a key role in the evolving IT applications and they rely heavily on
the optical interconnects to improve their performance and scalability. Optically switched …

End-to-end real-time demonstration of the slotted, SDN-controlled NEPHELE optical datacenter network

K Tokas, G Patronas, C Spatharakis, P Bakopoulos… - Photonics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The NEPHELE hybrid electro-optical datacenter network (DCN) architecture is proposed as
a dynamic network solution to provide high capacity, scalability, and cost efficiency in …

[PDF][PDF] Slotted optical datacenter networks with sub-wavelength resource allocation

K Christodoulopoulos, K Kontodimas… - 2019 Optical Fiber …, 2019 - 147.102.16.1
We describe the dynamic resource allocation problem in a slotted Datacenter network and
present fast scheduling solutions to solve it. We then review scalability related issues. OCIS …

Simplifying Optical DCN Fabrics with Blocking Space Switching and Wavelength-Constrained WDM

K Kontodimas, K Christodoulopoulos… - Optical Network Design …, 2020 - Springer
The introduction of all-optical switching in data center interconnection networks (DCN) is key
to addressing some of the shortcomings of state-of-the-art electronic switched solutions …