Lightness: A function-virtualizable software defined data center network with all-optical circuit/packet switching

GM Saridis, S Peng, Y Yan, A Aguado… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern high-performance data centers are responsible for delivering a huge variety of cloud
applications to the end-users, which are increasingly pushing the limits of the currently …

All-optical programmable disaggregated data centre network realized by FPGA-based switch and interface card

Y Yan, GM Saridis, Y Shu, BR Rofoee… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
This paper reports an FPGA-based switch and interface card (SIC) and its application
scenario in an all-optical, programmable disaggregated data center network (DCN). Our …

Software-based fast failure recovery in load balanced SDN-based datacenter networks

B Raeisi, A Giorgetti - 2016 6th international conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Load balancing is currently considered as a candidate solution to tackle the emerging
problem of increasing bandwidth demand in intra-datacenter networks. Furthermore …

Timeslot switching-based optical bypass in data center for intrarack elephant flow with an ultrafast DPDK-enabled timeslot allocator

B Guo, Y Shang, Y Zhang, W Li, S Yin… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To alleviate the performance interruption between elephant and mouse flows, a combined
optical timeslot switching (OTS) and L2/L3 Top of Rack (ToR) architecture is experimentally …

Multi-tenant software-defined hybrid optical switched data centre

S Peng, B Guo, C Jackson, R Nejabati… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a holistic solution for software-defined optical data centres (DC). Hybrid optical
circuit/packet switching technologies are employed in the data plane, while a software …

Combining forward error correction and network coding in bufferless networks: A case study for optical packet switching

G Biczók, Y Chen, K Kralevska… - 2016 IEEE 17th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bufferless network operation is favorable in many application domains such as industrial
networks, on-chip networks and optical packet switching (OPS). The main challenge with …

Monolithic integrated slot-blocker for high datarate coherent optical slot switched networks

G de Valicourt, Y Pointurier, MA Mestre… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent progresses on monolithic SOI-based integration are presented for achieving high-
performance slot-blocker for cost-sensitive metropolitan and datacenter networks. We review …

LIGHTNESS: A deeply-programmable SDN-enabled data centre network with OCS/OPS multicast/unicast switch-over

GM Saridis, S Peng, Y Yan, A Aguado… - 2015 European …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate an all-optical dynamic DCN utilizing a fully SDN-enabled data-plane
including programmable FPGA-based NICs, offering Network Function Virtualization …

TDM based optical bypass for intra-rack elephant flow with a DPDK based online timeslot allocator

B Guo, S Li, S Yin, S Huang - 2017 Optical Fiber …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
TDM based optical bypass for intra-rack elephant flow with a DPDK based online timeslot
allocator Page 1 W1H.4.pdf OFC 2017 © OSA 2017 TDM based Optical Bypass for Intra-rack …

Lightness: All-optical SDN-enabled intra-DCN with optical circuit and packet switching

GM Saridis, A Aguado, Y Yan, W Miao… - Optical Switching in Next …, 2018 - Springer
The proposed LIGHTNESS DCN architecture aims at a flat all-optical interconnection design
by combining optical circuit switching (OCS) and optical packet switching (OPS) …