Title :
TONAK: A distributed low-latency and scalable optical switch architecture
Author :
Proietti, Roberto ; Nitta, Christopher ; Yawei Yin ; Akella, Venkatesh ; Yoo, S.J.B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper proposes TONAK, an AWGR-based optical switch with distributed control plane. Simulations results for a 128-port switch show high throughput and low average packet latency for offered loads of up to 75%, while achieving an energy efficiency of ≈50pJ/bit.
Keywords :
distributed control; energy conservation; optical switches; AWGR-based optical switch; TONAK; distributed control plane; distributed low-latency switch architecture; energy efficiency; packet latency; scalable optical switch architecture;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1608
