Hybrid Optical and Electrical Network Flows Scheduling in Cloud Data Centres

TL;DR

This paper proposes an efficient flow selection and placement strategy for hybrid optical and electrical data centre networks, improving throughput, reducing delay, and enhancing flow stability through simulation and SDN testbed validation.

Contribution

It introduces novel techniques for flow selection and bottleneck detection tailored for hybrid intra-data centre networks, with validation through simulation and SDN testing.

Findings

Significant throughput improvement

Lower configuration delay

Enhanced flow stability

Abstract

Hybrid intra-data centre networks, with optical and electrical capabilities, are attracting research interest in recent years. This is attributed to the emergence of new bandwidth greedy applications and novel computing paradigms. A key decision to make in networks of this type is the selection and placement of suitable flows for switching in circuit network. Here, we propose an efficient strategy for flow selection and placement suitable for hybrid Intra-cloud data centre networks. We further present techniques for investigating bottlenecks in a packet networks and for the selection of flows to switch in circuit network. The bottleneck technique is verified on a Software Defined Network (SDN) testbed. We also implemented the techniques presented here in a scalable simulation experiment to investigate the impact of flow selection on network performance. Results obtained from scalable simulation experiment indicate a considerable improvement on average throughput, lower configuration delay, and stability of offloaded flows