Optical space switches in data centers: Issues with transport protocols

Abu-Tair, Mamun, Perry, Philip, Morrow, Philip, McClean, Sally, Scotney, Bryan, Parr, Gerard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-9132 and Biswas, Md Israfil (2019) Optical space switches in data centers: Issues with transport protocols. Photonics, 6 (1). ISSN 2304-6732

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Abstract

A number of new architectures for data centre networks employing reconfigurable, SDN controlled, all-optical networks have been reported in recent years. In most cases, additional capacity was added to the system which unsurprisingly improved performance. In this study, a generalised network model that emulates the behaviour of these types of network was developed but where the total capacity is maintained constant so that system behaviour can be understood. An extensive emulated study is presented which indicates that the reconfiguration of such a network can have a detrimental impact on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) congestion control mechanisms that can degrade the performance of the system. A number of simple scheduling mechanisms were investigated and the results show that an on-demand scheduling mechanism could deliver a throughput increase of more than ∼50% without any increase in total installed network capacity. These results, therefore, indicate the need to link the network resource management with new datacentre network architectures.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Smart Emerging Technologies Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Cyber Security Privacy and Trust Laboratory
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2019 16:30
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 17:46
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70077
DOI:	10.3390/photonics6010016

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