High performance AWGR PONs in data centre networks

Author

Hammadi, Ali ; El-Gorashi, Taisir E. H. ; Elmirghani, Jaafar M. H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The unprecedented advances in Passive Optical Networks (PONs) and their proven performance in access networks have encouraged researcher to investigate the use of passive optics to address the limitations of conventional data centre architectures. In this paper, we present a scalable, high capacity and energy efficient arrayed wave guide grating router (AWGR) PON based data centre architecture to facilitate inter and intra racks communication within data centres. The proposed architecture can be scaled up efficiently to hundreds of thousands of servers and has shown energy savings of 45% and 80% compared to the Fat-Tree and BCube architectures, respectively.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; computer centres; energy conservation; passive optical networks; power aware computing; telecommunication network routing; data centre network architecture; energy saving; high-performance AWGR passive optical network; high-performance arrayed waveguide grating router PON; interrack communication; intrarack communication; Computer architecture; Microprocessors; Optical switches; Passive optical networks; Ports (Computers); Power demand; Servers; arrayed waveguide grating routers (AWGRs); data centre; energy efficiency; passive optical network (PON);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193567

Filename

7193567