TCP traffic carrying capabilities of OBS-based hypercubes for datacenters

Pablo Jesus Argibay-Losada, Chunming Qiao, Limei Peng, Wan Tang

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Abstract

High power consumption due to O/E/O processing in many conventional electronic datacenter networks can be greatly decreased by a suitable use of all-optical switching technologies. OBS is specially suited to perform this task given its bursty-data traffic friendly mode of operation. In this paper, we evaluate through analysis and simulation the performance of both OBS and electronic networks when used to carry TCP flows inside a 6D-hypercube, a highly symmetrical topology representative of datacenter networks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPhotonics and Optolectronics Meetings (POEM) 2011
Subtitle of host publicationOptical Communication Systems and Networking
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
EventPhotonics and Optolectronics Meetings (POEM) 2011: Optical Communication Systems and Networking - Wuhan, China
Duration: 2 Nov 20115 Nov 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume8331
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferencePhotonics and Optolectronics Meetings (POEM) 2011: Optical Communication Systems and Networking
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period2/11/115/11/11

Keywords

  • Datacenter
  • Hypercube
  • Optical burst-switching
  • TCP

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