An optical programmable network architecture supporting iterative multicast for data-intensive applications

Samadi, Payman; Wang, H.; Calhoun, David M.; Xia, Yu; Sripanidkulchai, Kunwadee; Ng, T. S. Eugene; Bergman, Keren

doi:10.1109/oic.2014.6886099

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“…By reconfiguring the topology, they can make the network be comparable to a nonblocking network, while saving on power, cost, and wiring complexity. Other works use optics to reduce latency [61]; use optics to support multicast [62,63,64,65]; and design new optical hardware [66,67,68]. Differently, Owan reconfigures topologies in the WAN scenario, which uses ROADMs, regenerators and has the optical reach constraint, and Owan combines topology reconfiguration with routing and rate allocation to optimize transfer-level objectives.…”

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Optimizing Bulk Transfers with Software-Defined Optical WAN

Jin

Wei

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference

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Bulk transfer on the wide-area network (WAN) is a fundamental service to many globally-distributed applications. It is challenging to efficiently utilize expensive WAN bandwidth to achieve short transfer completion time and meet mission-critical deadlines. Advancements in software-defined networking (SDN) and optical hardware make it feasible and beneficial to quickly reconfigure optical devices in the optical layer, which brings a new opportunity for traffic management on the WAN. We present Owan, a novel traffic management system that optimizes wide-area bulk transfers with centralized joint control of the optical and network layers. Owan can dynamically change the network-layer topology by reconfiguring the optical devices. We develop efficient algorithms to jointly optimize optical circuit setup, routing and rate allocation, and dynamically adapt them to traffic demand changes. We have built a prototype of Owan with commodity optical and electrical hardware. Testbed experiments and large-scale simulations on two ISP topologies and one inter-DC topology show that Owan completes transfers up to 4.45× faster on average, and up to 1.36× more transfers meet their deadlines, as compared to prior methods that only control the network layer.

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