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Reliable and Cost Efficient Passive Optical Interconnects for Data Centers
KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Communication Systems, CoS, Optical Network Laboratory (ON Lab).
KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Communication Systems, CoS, Optical Network Laboratory (ON Lab).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5318-2050
KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Communication Systems, CoS, Optical Network Laboratory (ON Lab).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6704-6554
KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Communication Systems, CoS, Optical Network Laboratory (ON Lab).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6989-9048
2015 (English)In: IEEE Communications Letters, ISSN 1089-7798, E-ISSN 1558-2558, Vol. 19, no 11, p. 1913-1916Article in journal, Letter (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

To address the sustainability, scalability, and reliability problems that data centers are currently facing, we propose three passive optical interconnect (POI) architectures on top of the rack. The evaluation results show that all three architectures offer high reliability performance (connection availability for intra-rack interconnections higher than 99.999%) in a cost-efficient way.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE Communications Society, 2015. Vol. 19, no 11, p. 1913-1916
National Category
Communication Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-184493DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2015.2478474ISI: 000365028900014Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84947602238OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-184493DiVA, id: diva2:916197
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QC 20160525

Available from: 2016-04-01 Created: 2016-04-01 Last updated: 2024-03-15Bibliographically approved
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1. Passive Optical Top-of-Rack Interconnect for Data Center Networks
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2017 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Optical networks offering ultra-high capacity and low energy consumption per bit are considered as a good option to handle the rapidly growing traffic volume inside data center (DCs). However, most of the optical interconnect architectures proposed for DCs so far are mainly focused on the aggregation/core tiers of the data center networks (DCNs), while relying on the conventional top-of-rack (ToR) electronic packet switches (EPS) in the access tier. A large number of ToR switches in the current DCNs brings serious scalability limitations due to high cost and power consumption. Thus, it is important to investigate and evaluate new optical interconnects tailored for the access tier of the DCNs.

We propose and evaluate a passive optical ToR interconnect (POTORI) architecture for the access tier. The data plane of the POTORI consists mainly of passive components to interconnect the servers within the rack as well as the interfaces toward the aggregation/core tiers. Using the passive components makes it possible to significantly reduce power consumption while achieving high reliability in a cost-efficient way.

Meanwhile, our proposed POTORI’s control plane is based on a centralized rack controller, which is responsible for coordinating the communications among the servers in the rack. It can be reconfigured by software-defined networking (SDN) operation. A cycle-based medium access control (MAC) protocol and a dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) algorithm are designed for the POTORI to efficiently manage the exchange of control messages and the data transmission inside the rack.

Simulation results show that under realistic DC traffic scenarios, the POTORI with the proposed DBA algorithm is able to achieve an average packet delay below 10 μs with the use of fast tunable optical transceivers. Moreover, we further quantify the impact of different network configuration parameters on the average packet delay. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2017. p. 31
Keywords
Optical communications, data center interconnects, MAC protocol, dynamic bandwidth allocation.
National Category
Engineering and Technology Communication Systems
Research subject
Information and Communication Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-206421 (URN)978-91-7729-387-3 (ISBN)
Presentation
2017-06-12, Ka-Sal C (Sal Sven-Olof Öhrvik), Electrum, Kistagången 16, Kista, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
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QC 20170503

Available from: 2017-05-09 Created: 2017-05-03 Last updated: 2022-09-05Bibliographically approved
2. Optical Interconnects for Next Generation Data Centers: Architecture Design and Resource Allocation
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2019 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The current data center architectures based on blade servers and elec- tronic packet switches face several problems, e.g., limited resource utilization, high power consumption and cost, when handling the rapidly growing of data traffic. Optical networks offering ultra-high capacity and requiring low energy consumption are considered as a good option to address these problems. This thesis presents new data center architectures based on optical interconnects and transmissions, and evaluates performance by extensive simulations.

The first main contribution of the thesis is to introduce a passive optical top-of-rack interconnect (POTORI) architecture. The data plane of POTORI mainly consists of passive components to interconnect the servers within the rack. Using the passive components makes it possible to significantly reduce power consumption while achieving high reliability in a cost-efficient way. In addition, the POTORI’s control plane is based on a centralized controller, which is responsible for coordinating the communications among the servers in the rack. A cycle-based medium access control (MAC) protocol and a dy- namic bandwidth allocation (DBA) algorithm are designed for the POTORI to efficiently manage the exchange of control messages and the data transmis- sion inside the rack. Simulation results show that under realistic DC traffic scenarios, the POTORI with the proposed DBA algorithm is able to achieve an average packet delay below 10 μs with the use of fast tunable optical transceivers.

The second main contribution of the thesis is to investigate rack-scale disaggregated data center (DDC) architecture for improving resource utiliza- tion. In contrast to the traditional DC with blade servers that integrate various types of resources (e.g., central processing unit (CPU), memory) in a chassis, the rack-scale DDC contains fully decoupled resources held on differ- ent blades, referred to as resource blades. The resource blades are required to be interconnected within the rack by an ultra-high bandwidth optical in- terconnect through the optical interfaces (OIs). A resource allocation (RA) algorithm is proposed to efficiently schedule the resources in the DDC for virtual machine requests. Results show that with sufficient bandwidth on the OIs, the rack-scale DDC with the proposed RA algorithm can achieve 20% higher resource utilization and make 30% more revenue comparing to the traditional DC.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2019. p. 61
Series
TRITA-EECS-AVL ; 2019:18
National Category
Communication Systems
Research subject
Information and Communication Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-244840 (URN)978-91-7873-108-4 (ISBN)
Public defence
2019-03-29, Ka-Sal B (Sal Peter Weissglas), Electrum, Kungl Tekniska högskolan, Kistagången 16, Kista, 10:00 (English)
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QC 20190301

Available from: 2019-03-01 Created: 2019-02-28 Last updated: 2022-09-05Bibliographically approved

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