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 of flexibility, scalability, performance, and energy consumption. For this reason several optical switched interconnects, which make use of optical switches and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), have been recently proposed. However, the solutions proposed so far suffer from low flexibility and are not able to provide service differentiation. In this paper we introduce a novel data center network based on hybrid optical switching (HOS). HOS combines optical circuit, burst, and packet switching on the same network. In this way different data center applications can be mapped to the optical transportmechanism that best suits their traffic characteristics. Furthermore, the proposed HOS network achieves high transmission efficiency and reduced energy consumption by using two parallel optical switches. We consider the architectures of both a traditional data center network and the proposed HOS network and present a combined analytical and simulation approach for their performance and energy consumption evaluation. We demonstrate that the proposed HOS data center network achieves high performance and flexibility while considerably reducing the energy consumption of current solutions.

Hybrid Optical Switching for Data Center Networks / M., Fiorani; S., Aleksic; Casoni, Maurizio. - In: JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING. - ISSN 2090-0147. - ELETTRONICO. - 2014:(2014), pp. 1-13. [10.1155/2014/139213]

Hybrid Optical Switching for Data Center Networks

CASONI, Maurizio
2014

Abstract

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 of flexibility, scalability, performance, and energy consumption. For this reason several optical switched interconnects, which make use of optical switches and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), have been recently proposed. However, the solutions proposed so far suffer from low flexibility and are not able to provide service differentiation. In this paper we introduce a novel data center network based on hybrid optical switching (HOS). HOS combines optical circuit, burst, and packet switching on the same network. In this way different data center applications can be mapped to the optical transportmechanism that best suits their traffic characteristics. Furthermore, the proposed HOS network achieves high transmission efficiency and reduced energy consumption by using two parallel optical switches. We consider the architectures of both a traditional data center network and the proposed HOS network and present a combined analytical and simulation approach for their performance and energy consumption evaluation. We demonstrate that the proposed HOS data center network achieves high performance and flexibility while considerably reducing the energy consumption of current solutions.
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Hybrid Optical Switching for Data Center Networks / M., Fiorani; S., Aleksic; Casoni, Maurizio. - In: JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING. - ISSN 2090-0147. - ELETTRONICO. - 2014:(2014), pp. 1-13. [10.1155/2014/139213]
M., Fiorani; S., Aleksic; Casoni, Maurizio
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