Paper Info
Title
A novel SDN enabled hybrid optical packet/circuit switched data centre network: The LIGHTNESS approach
Abstract
Current over-provisioned and multi-tier data centre networks (DCN) deploy rigid control and management platforms, which are not able to accommodate the ever-growing workload driven by the increasing demand of high-performance data centre (DC) and cloud applications. In response to this, the EC FP7 project LIGHTNESS (Low Latency and High Throughput Dynamic Network Infrastructures for High Performance Datacentre Interconnects) is proposing a new flattened optical DCN architecture capable of providing dynamic, programmable, and highly available DCN connectivity services while meeting the requirements of new and emerging DC and cloud applications. LIGHTNESS DCN comprises all-optical switching technologies (Optical Packet Switching (OPS) and Optical Circuit Switching (OCS)) and hybrid Top-of-the-Rack (ToR) switches, controlled and operated by a Software Defined Networking (SDN) based control plane for enhanced programmability of heterogeneous network functions and protocols. Harnessing the power of optics enables DCs to effectively cope with the high-performance applications' demands. The programmability and flexibility provided by the SDN based control plane allow to fully exploit the benefits of the LIGHTNESS multi-technology optical DCN, while provisioning on-demand, dynamic, flexible and highly resilient network services inside DCs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882622
EuCNC
Keywords
Field
DocType
packet switching,hybrid tor switches,ocs,optical circuit switching (ocs),multitier data centre networks,low-latency high throughput dynamic network infrastructures-high performance datacentre interconnects,computer centres,high-performance data centre,sdn enabled hybrid optical packet-circuit switched data centre network,optical packet switching (ops),highly-resilient network services,software defined networking (sdn),programmable dcn connectivity service,software defined networking,circuit switching,all-optical switching technology,highly-available dcn connectivity service,data centre network (dcn),lightness multitechnology optical dcn,rigid control-management platforms,ops,on-demand network services,enhanced programmability,over-provisioned dcn,computer networks,architecture-on-demand (aod),flexible network services,sdn-based control plane,lightness approach,high-performance cloud application,heterogeneous network protocols,dynamic dcn connectivity service,optical switches,cluster,optical dcn architecture,hybrid top-of-the-rack switches,heterogeneous network functions,lightness ec fp7 project,servers,protocols,computer architecture
Optical burst switching,Circuit switching,Computer science,Network packet,Burst switching,Computer network,Packet switching,Heterogeneous network,Software-defined networking,Fast packet switching
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.55
2
Authors
25
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuping Peng114116.80
Dimitra Simeonidou233280.03
George Zervas350.55
Reza Nejabati421143.72
Yan Yan561.28
Yi Shu650.55
Salvatore Spadaro720539.91
Jordi Perelló811925.62
Fernando Agraz9279.69
Davide Careglio1041844.52
Harm J. S. Dorren11293.59
Wang Miao12133.21
Nicola Calabretta13314.68
Giacomo Bernini147414.11
Nicola Ciulli1510115.60
José Carlos Sancho1638229.97
Steluta Iordache17262.44
Yolanda Becerra1823916.81
Montse Farreras1916312.94
Matteo Biancani20354.79
Alessandro Predieri21262.44
Roberto Proietti22294.60
Zheng Cao2350.55
Lei Liu24293.21
S. J. Ben Yoo2550.89