Software defined optical network based on multi-level WDM ring topology for intra data center switching

Author

Xiaohan Sun ; Yu Zheng ; Zijian Mao ; Shijie Ma ; Junhua Qiu ; Ying Wang ; Hengjian Tang ; Xiaolu Zhang

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Center for Opt. Sensing/Commun. Integrated Networking, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A software defined optical network based on multi-level WDM ring topology for intra data center switching is proposed. SDN-based unified control plane as well as the routing strategy are given, which make the control and management flexible. Analytical results show that the multi-level WDM ring network structure has good scalability which can support about 256,000 servers under the assumption of each server allocating 1 Gbps bandwith without over subscription.

Keywords

computer centres; network routing; software defined networking; wavelength division multiplexing; SDN-based unified control plane; intra data center switching; multilevel WDM ring topology; routing strategy; scalability; software defined optical network; Bandwidth; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Servers; Structural rings; Wavelength division multiplexing; Data center; Software defined network; multi-level WDM ring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2015 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2015.7203749

Filename

7203749