An arrayed waveguide grating router based nanoseconds optical switching data center network is experimentally demonstrated and investigated. Experimental assessments validate the system achieves error-free communication with 465 ns server-to-server latency even at load of 0.9.
A contention-free scheduling scheme PROPH is proposed for AWGR-based optical DCN to elastically allocate adaptable bandwidth. Assessments validate that the network deploying PROPH decreases 73.6% packet loss and 11.9% server-to-server latency, improves 11.6% network throughput.
Benefitting from the cost-effective and flexible interconnection between computing nodes and storing infrastructures, various applications and services are deployed in data centers (DCs). These traffic-boosting applications put tremendous pressures on current electrically switched DC networks (DCNs) which suffer the bandwidth bottleneck. Benefitting from the data-rate and format transparency, the optically switched DCN with intrinsic high-bandwidth characteristics is a promising solution to update the hierarchical electrical DCNs with bandwidth limitations. Moreover, the applications deployed in DCNs with mixed traffic characteristics require dynamic quality of service (QoS) provisioning. Optical DCNs thus need to be designed in a flexible topology with the capability of bandwidth reconfigurability to adapt the variety of the traffic. In this paper, we propose and experimentally investigate a reconfigurable optical packet switching DCN named RGAIA, based on flexible top of racks (ToRs) and fast optical switch, where the optical switch is implemented by tunable transceiver combing with arrayed waveguide grating router (AWGR). Under the management of the designed software defined network (SDN) control plane, RGAIA can dynamically distribute the wavelength resource and then reconfigure the bandwidth in real-time based on the monitored traffic characteristics. Experimental assessments validate RGAIA improving performance of 37% and 66% in latency and packet loss, respectively, compared with the network with rigid interconnections at the traffic load of 0.8.
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