Software-defined optical data centre networks

Author

Peng Shuping ; Guo Bingli ; Shu Yi ; Zervas, George ; Nejabati, Reza ; Simeonidou, Dimitra

Author_Institution

High Performance Networks Group, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Volume

12

Issue

8

fYear

2015

fDate

8/1/2015 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Based on the analysis of data centre (DC) traffic pattern, we introduced a holistic software-defined optical DC solution. Architecture-on-Demand based hybrid optical switched (OPS/OCS) data centre network (DCN) fabric is introduced, which is able to realise different inter-and intra-cluster configurations and dynamically support diverse traffic in the DC. The optical DCN is controlled and managed by a software-defined networking (SDN) enabled control plane to achieve high programmability. Moreover, virtual data centre (VDC) composition is developed as an application of such software-defined optical DC to create VDC slices for different tenants.

Keywords

computer centres; optical fibre networks; software defined networking; telecommunication traffic; DC traffic pattern; OPS-OCS DCN fabric; VDC slices; architecture-on-demand based hybrid optical switched data centre network; control plane; holistic software-defined optical DC solution; inter-cluster configurations; intra-cluster configurations; software-defined optical data centre networks; virtual data centre composition; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, China

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1673-5447

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/CC.2015.7224692

Filename

7224692