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 …

Big data: A survey

M Chen, S Mao, Y Liu - Mobile networks and applications, 2014 - Springer
In this paper, we review the background and state-of-the-art of big data. We first introduce
the general background of big data and review related technologies, such as could …

Toward scalable systems for big data analytics: A technology tutorial

H Hu, Y Wen, TS Chua, X Li - IEEE access, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent technological advancements have led to a deluge of data from distinctive domains
(eg, health care and scientific sensors, user-generated data, Internet and financial …

Optical interconnection networks in data centers: recent trends and future challenges

C Kachris, K Kanonakis… - IEEE Communications …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Warehouse-scale data center operators need much-higher-bandwidth intra-data center
networks (DCNs) to sustain the increase of network traffic due to cloud computing and other …

Prospects and challenges of photonic switching in data centers and computing systems

SJB Yoo - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This Tutorial will discuss the motivation, benefits, and challenges of photonic switching in
data centers and cover prospects of future data centers involving emerging new …

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 …

Ultra-compact silicon photonic 512× 512 25 GHz arrayed waveguide grating router

S Cheung, T Su, K Okamoto… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses design, fabrication, and characterization of a 512× 512 arrayed
waveguide grating router (AWGR) with a channel spacing of 25 GHz. The dimensions of the …

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 …

PULSE: optical circuit switched data center architecture operating at nanosecond timescales

JL Benjamin, T Gerard, D Lavery, P Bayvel… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We introduce PULSE, a sub-s optical circuit switched data centre network architecture
controlled by distributed hardware schedulers. PULSE is a flat architecture that uses parallel …