%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Simplifying Optical DCN Fabrics with Blocking Space Switching and Wavelength-Constrained WDM
%+ National Technical University of Athens [Athens] (NTUA)
%+ Nokia Bell Labs [Stuttgart]
%A Kontodimas, Konstantinos
%A Christodoulopoulos, Kostas
%A Varvarigos, Emmanouel
%Z Part 1: Regular Papers
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 23th International IFIP Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)
%C Athens, Greece
%Y Anna Tzanakaki
%Y Manos Varvarigos
%Y Raul Muñoz
%Y Reza Nejabati
%Y Noboru Yoshikane
%Y Markos Anastasopoulos
%Y Johann Marquez-Barja
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Optical Network Design and Modeling
%V LNCS-11616
%P 286-298
%8 2019-05-13
%D 2019
%R 10.1007/978-3-030-38085-4_25
%K Time-wavelength-space division multiplexing
%K Blocking design
%K Slotted and synchronous operation
%K Dynamic resource allocation
%K scheduling
%K Matrix decomposition
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers
%X The introduction of all-optical switching in data center interconnection networks (DCN) is key to addressing some of the shortcomings of state-of-the-art electronic switched solutions. Limitations in the port count, reconfiguration speed and cost of optical switches, however, require novel optical switching and DCN designs. We present the concept of a simplified DCN fabric that relies on a lean optical switch design of limited but scalable functionality that offers high reconfiguration speeds, real-time scheduling, efficient control and low equipment cost. To achieve these objectives, the proposed architecture relaxes the usual non-blocking switching requirements but opts for switching modules that are constrained in terms of the achievable space and wavelength input-output configurations. We analytically compare the functionality and complexity of the simplified fabric with those of a non-blocking switch. We evaluate the throughput performance of the simplified DCN fabric and compare it to that of other fabrics with a different level of functionality and centralized control.
%G English
%Z TC 6
%Z WG 6.10
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-03200671/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-03200671/file/484327_1_En_25_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-03200671
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-03200671
%~ IFIP-LNCS
%~ IFIP
%~ IFIP-TC
%~ IFIP-WG
%~ IFIP-TC6
%~ IFIP-LNCS-11616
%~ IFIP-ONDM
%~ IFIP-WG6-10