Software-Controlled Next Generation Optical Circuit Switching for HPC and Cloud Computing Datacenters
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The RINCE Institute, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
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IBM Research, Dublin 15, Ireland
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Academic Editor: Lei Liu
Electronics 2015, 4(4), 909-921; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics4040909
Received: 18 September 2015
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Revised: 30 October 2015
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Accepted: 2 November 2015
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Published: 5 November 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software-Defined Optical Networks)
In this paper, we consider the performance of optical circuit switching (OCS) systems designed for data center networks by using network-level simulation. Recent proposals have used OCS in data center networks but the relatively slow switching times of OCS-MEMS switches (10–100 ms) and the latencies of control planes in these approaches have limited their use to the largest data center networks with workloads that last several seconds. Herein, we extend the applicability and generality of these studies by considering dynamically changing short-lived circuits in software-controlled OCS switches, using the faster switching technologies that are now available. The modelled switch architecture features fast optical switches in a single hop topology with a centralized, software-defined optical control plane. We model different workloads with various traffic aggregation parameters to investigate the performance of such designs across usage patterns. Our results show that, with suitable choices for the OCS system parameters, delay performance comparable to that of electrical data center networks can be obtained.
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Keywords:
optical circuit switching; datacenter networking; optical networks; opticalinterconnects; software defined optical networks
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Imran, M.; Collier, M.; Landais, P.; Katrinis, K. Software-Controlled Next Generation Optical Circuit Switching for HPC and Cloud Computing Datacenters. Electronics 2015, 4, 909-921. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics4040909
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Imran M, Collier M, Landais P, Katrinis K. Software-Controlled Next Generation Optical Circuit Switching for HPC and Cloud Computing Datacenters. Electronics. 2015; 4(4):909-921. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics4040909
Chicago/Turabian StyleImran, Muhammad, Martin Collier, Pascal Landais, and Kostas Katrinis. 2015. "Software-Controlled Next Generation Optical Circuit Switching for HPC and Cloud Computing Datacenters" Electronics 4, no. 4: 909-921. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics4040909
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