All-optical packet/circuit switching-based data center network for enhanced scalability, latency, and throughput

IEEE Network

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 14-22

  Perelló, Jordi ^a   Spadaro, Salvatore ^a   Ricciardi, Sergio ^a   Careglio, Davide ^a   Peng, Shuping ^b   Nejabati, Reza ^b   Zervas, George ^b   Simeonidou, Dimitra ^b   Predieri, Alessandro ^c   Biancani, Matteo ^c   S Dorren, Harm ^d   Lucente, Stefano ^d   Luo, Jun ^d   Calabretta, Nicola ^d   Bernini, Giacomo ^e   Ciulli, Nicola ^e   Sancho, Jose ^f   Iordache, Steluta ^f   Farreras, Montse ^f   Becerra, Yolanda ^f   Liou, Chris ^g   Hussain, Iftekhar ^g   Yin, Yawei ^h   Liu, Lei ^h   Proietti, Roberto ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Barnard's Inn   (United Kingdom)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e Nextworks   (United States)

^f BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^g INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; DYNAMIC APPLICATIONS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCHING; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; HARDWARE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84890449831     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2013.6678922     Document Type: Article

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