Software-defined photonic network-on-chip

Author

Junhui Wang ; Ming Zhu ; Chao Peng ; Lewen Zhou ; Yue Qian ; Wenhua Dou

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Chang´sha, China

fYear

2014

fDate

April 29 2014-May 1 2014

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

130

Abstract

In photonic network-on-chips (PNoC), it is very important to improve the utilization of photonic resources. This paper is the first one that extends the software-defined networking (SDN) concept to photonic NoC design. Based on the principle of a centralized control plane separated from the network forwarding or switching plane, we propose a Software-defined photonic network-on-chip (SD-PNoC) architecture. Then, we present the detailed communication protocol and the microar-chitecture of central controller. Finally, the opportunities and challenges for designing SDN-based PNoC is discussed.

Keywords

centralised control; integrated optics; network-on-chip; protocols; software defined networking; SD-PNoC architecture; central controller; centralized control plane; communication protocol; microarchitecture; network forwarding; photonic NoC design; photonic resources; software-defined networking concept; software-defined photonic network-on-chip; switching plane; Computer architecture; Network-on-chip; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Photonics; Network-on-Chip; SDN; central con-troller; photonic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Technologies and Networks for Development (ICeND), 2014 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beirut

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3165-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICeND.2014.6991365

Filename

6991365