A survey on optical interconnects for data centers

C Kachris, I Tomkos - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers are experiencing an exponential increase in the amount of network traffic that
they have to sustain due to cloud computing and several emerging web applications. To …

A survey on architectures and energy efficiency in data center networks

A Hammadi, L Mhamdi - Computer Communications, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Data Center Networks (DCNs) are attracting growing interest from both academia
and industry to keep pace with the exponential growth in cloud computing and enterprise …

Optical interconnects for high-performance computing

MA Taubenblatt - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-performance computing systems are of steadily growing interest to provide new levels
of computational capability for an increasing range of applications. The growing use of and …

DOS: A scalable optical switch for datacenters

X Ye, Y Yin, SJB Yoo, P Mejia, R Proietti… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This paper discusses the architecture and performance studies of Datacenter Optical Switch
(DOS) designed for scalable and high-throughput interconnections within a data center …

LIONS: An AWGR-based low-latency optical switch for high-performance computing and data centers

Y Yin, R Proietti, X Ye, CJ Nitta… - IEEE Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses the architecture of an arrayed waveguide grating router (AWGR)-
based low-latency interconnect optical network switch called LIONS, and its different …

Shoal: A network architecture for disaggregated racks

V Shrivastav, A Valadarsky, H Ballani, P Costa… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2019 - usenix.org
Disaggregated racks comprise a dense cluster of separate pools of compute, memory and
storage blades, all inter-connected through an internal network within a single rack …

Novel flat datacenter network architecture based on scalable and flow-controlled optical switch system

W Miao, J Luo, S Di Lucente, H Dorren… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate an optical flat datacenter network based on scalable optical
switch system with optical flow control. Modular structure with distributed control results in …

Reconfigurable network systems and software-defined networking

N Zilberman, PM Watts, C Rotsos… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern high-speed networks have evolved from relatively static networks to highly adaptive
networks facilitating dynamic reconfiguration. This evolution has influenced all levels of …

Towards petabit/s all-optical flat data center networks based on WDM optical cross-connect switches with flow control

W Miao, F Yan, N Calabretta - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scaling the capacity while maintaining low latency and power consumption is a challenge
for hierarchical data center networks (DCNs) based on electrical switches. In this work we …

High-port and low-latency optical switches for disaggregated data centers: the Hipoλaos switch architecture

N Terzenidis, M Moralis-Pegios… - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The emergence of disaggregation in data center (DC) architectures as a way to increase
resource utilization introduces significant challenges to the DC switching infrastructure …