On the feasibility of completely wireless datacenters

ANCS 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-14

  Shin, Ji Yong ^a   Sirer, Emin Gün ^a   Weatherspoon, Hakim ^a   Kirovski, Darko ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

60ghz RF; wireless data center

Indexed keywords

60GHZ RF; CAYLEY GRAPHS; DATA CENTERS; DESIGN SPACES; NETWORK FAILURE; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; RF TECHNOLOGY; WIRED NETWORKS; WIRELESS DATA;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FAULT TOLERANCE; GRAPH THEORY;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84871327209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2396556.2396560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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