IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking • Vol 31 • No 3
Enabling Quasi-Static Reconfigurable Networks With Robust Topology Engineering
October 2022 • Min Yee Teh, Shizhen Zhao, Peirui Cao, Keren Bergman
Many optical circuit switched data center networks (DCN) have been proposed in the last decade to attain higher capacity and topology reconfigurability, though commercial adoption of these architectures have been minimal. One major challenge these architectures face is the difficulty of handling uncertain traffic demands using commercial optical circuit switches (OCS) with high switching latency. Prior works have generally focused on developing fast-switching OCS prototypes to quickly react to traffic variations t…