@article{c3b9281e4ce94e06b7c44f688eb06e81,
title = "AgileDCN: An Agile Reconfigurable Optical Data Center Network Architecture",
abstract = "This paper presents a detailed examination of a novel data center network (DCN) that can satisfy the high capacity and low latency requirements of modern cloud computing applications. This reconfigurable architecture called AgileDCN uses fast-switching optical components with a centralized control function and workload scheduler. By providing a highly flexible optical network fabric between server racks, very high network efficiencies can be achieved even under imbalanced loading patterns. Our simulation results show that, at high (70%) loads, TCP flow completion times in the AgileDCN are significantly lower than in an equivalent electronic leaf-spine network.",
keywords = "Agile reconfigurability, data center networks, optical networking, traffic scheduling",
author = "Le, {Dinh Danh} and Barry, {Liam P.} and Kilper, {Daniel C.} and Philip Perry and Jingyan Wang and Conor McArdle",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received February 25, 2019; revised February 7, 2020 and April 16, 2020; accepted April 27, 2020. Date of publication June 3, 2020; date of current version September 15, 2020. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant CNS-1827923, Grant CNS-1650669, Grant CNS-1737453, and Grant EEC-0812072, and in part by the Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) under the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme (SFI project code 15/USC2C/I3132), the SFI Centres CONNECT, and IPIC. (Corresponding author: Jingyan Wang.) Dinh Danh Le and Jingyan Wang are with the School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Dublin City University, D09 V209 Dublin, Ireland, and also with the Hong Duc University (HDU), Thanh Hoa 40000-42000, Vietnam (e-mail: dinhdanh.le@dcu.ie; jingyan.wang@dcu.ie). Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) under the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme (SFI project code 15/US C2C/I3132), the SFI Centres CONNECT and IPIC. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1983-2012 IEEE. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1109/JLT.2020.2999778",
language = "English",
volume = "38",
pages = "4922--4934",
journal = "Journal of Lightwave Technology",
issn = "0733-8724",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "18",
}