Novel Flat Data Center Network Architecture Based on Optical Switches With Fast Flow Control

We propose a novel flat and scalable data center network (DCN) architecture based on fast (nanosecond) distributed buffer-less optical switches and efficient optical flow control. The proposed DCN architecture scales as the square of the port count of the optical switches. In order to investigate th...

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Main Authors: Fulong Yan, Wang Miao, Harm Dorren, Nicola Calabretta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2016-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7368084/