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Title: Software-defined networking control plane for seamless integration of multiple silicon photonic switches in Datacom networks

Abstract

Silicon photonics based switches offer an effective option for the delivery of dynamic bandwidth for future large-scale Datacom systems while maintaining scalable energy efficiency. The integration of a silicon photonics-based optical switching fabric within electronic Datacom architectures requires novel network topologies and arbitration strategies to effectively manage the active elements in the network. Here, we present a scalable software-defined networking control plane to integrate silicon photonic based switches with conventional Ethernet or InfiniBand networks. Our software-defined control plane manages both electronic packet switches and multiple silicon photonic switches for simultaneous packet and circuit switching. We built an experimental Dragonfly network testbed with 16 electronic packet switches and 2 silicon photonic switches to evaluate our control plane. Observed latencies occupied by each step of the switching procedure demonstrate a total of 344 microsecond control plane latency for data-center and high performance computing platforms.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
OSTI Identifier:
1433050
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1429504
Grant/Contract Number:  
AR0000843; PO 1319001
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Published Article
Journal Name:
Optics Express
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Optics Express Journal Volume: 26 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher:
Optical Society of America
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Shen, Yiwen, Hattink, Maarten H. N., Samadi, Payman, Cheng, Qixiang, Hu, Ziyiz, Gazman, Alexander, and Bergman, Keren. Software-defined networking control plane for seamless integration of multiple silicon photonic switches in Datacom networks. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1364/OE.26.010914.
Shen, Yiwen, Hattink, Maarten H. N., Samadi, Payman, Cheng, Qixiang, Hu, Ziyiz, Gazman, Alexander, & Bergman, Keren. Software-defined networking control plane for seamless integration of multiple silicon photonic switches in Datacom networks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.010914
Shen, Yiwen, Hattink, Maarten H. N., Samadi, Payman, Cheng, Qixiang, Hu, Ziyiz, Gazman, Alexander, and Bergman, Keren. 2018. "Software-defined networking control plane for seamless integration of multiple silicon photonic switches in Datacom networks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.010914.
@article{osti_1433050,
title = {Software-defined networking control plane for seamless integration of multiple silicon photonic switches in Datacom networks},
author = {Shen, Yiwen and Hattink, Maarten H. N. and Samadi, Payman and Cheng, Qixiang and Hu, Ziyiz and Gazman, Alexander and Bergman, Keren},
abstractNote = {Silicon photonics based switches offer an effective option for the delivery of dynamic bandwidth for future large-scale Datacom systems while maintaining scalable energy efficiency. The integration of a silicon photonics-based optical switching fabric within electronic Datacom architectures requires novel network topologies and arbitration strategies to effectively manage the active elements in the network. Here, we present a scalable software-defined networking control plane to integrate silicon photonic based switches with conventional Ethernet or InfiniBand networks. Our software-defined control plane manages both electronic packet switches and multiple silicon photonic switches for simultaneous packet and circuit switching. We built an experimental Dragonfly network testbed with 16 electronic packet switches and 2 silicon photonic switches to evaluate our control plane. Observed latencies occupied by each step of the switching procedure demonstrate a total of 344 microsecond control plane latency for data-center and high performance computing platforms.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.26.010914},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1433050}, journal = {Optics Express},
issn = {1094-4087},
number = 8,
volume = 26,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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