Energy-Efficient Elastic Optical Interconnect Architecture for Data Centers
Matteo Fiorani, Slaviša Aleksić, Maurizio Casoni, Lena Wosinska, Jiajia Chen · IEEE Communications Letters · 2014
To address the urgent need for high-capacity, scalable and energy-efficient data center solutions, we propose a novel data center network architecture realized by combining broadcast-and-select approach with elastic channel spacing technology. We demonstrate that the proposed architecture is able to scale efficiently with the number of servers and offers lower energy consumption at a competitive cost compared to the existing solutions.