Analytical model for anycast service provisioning in data center interconnections

This paper presents an analytical model to evaluate the performance of an optical wavelength-routed network for inter- and intra-data center interconnection, designed to work according to the cloud computing paradigm. Such a scenario calls for anycast routing of service requests to find a network path that best suits both connectivity and IT resource requirements. The analytical model is based on conventional queuing theory for loss systems combined with an ad-hoc combinatorial analysis of the anycast service alternatives. The model presented here is meant to provide engineering guidelines for data center interconnection networks supporting the cloud paradigm, in particular in terms of performance and cost of resource distribution.