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Front. Comput. Sci.    2019, Vol. 13 Issue (5) : 1034-1047    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-018-7315-6
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Design and optimization of VLC based small-world data centers
Yudong QIN1, Deke GUO1(), Lailong LUO1, Geyao CHENG1, Zeliu DING2
1. Science and Technology on Information System Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
2. School of Electronic Engineering, Naval University of Engineering,Wuhan 430033, China
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Abstract

The visible light communication (VLC) has the potential to provide dense and fast connectivity at low cost. In this paper, we propose a novel VLC enabled Wireless Small-World Data Center (WSWDC). It employs VLC links to achieve a fully wireless data center network (DCN) across racks for the first time. The using of VLC links eliminates hierarchical switches and inter-rack cables, and thus reducing hardware investment, as well as maintenance cost. More precisely, to simplify the configuration and control operations, we propose three DCN design rationales: (1) fully-wireless, all inter-rack links are wireless; (2) easy-deployable, it is not necessary to change the existing infrastructure inside data center; (3) plug-and-play, no extra centralized control operations are required. Previous proposals, however, cannot achieve the three rationales simultaneously. To this end, we first use regular VLC links to interconnect racks as a regular grid DCN and optimize the rack placement to shorten the average path length and the network diameter. To further exploiting the benefits of VLC links, a few random VLC links are carefully introduced to update the wireless grid DCN as a wireless small-world DCN. To avoid the potential interference among VLC links, we deploy VLC transceivers at different heights on the top of each rack. In this way, VLC links would not interfere with others at each height level. Moreover, we design a greedy but efficient routing method for any pair of racks using their identifiers as inputs. Comprehensive evaluation results indicate that our WSWDC exhibits good topological properties and network performance.

Keywords data center network      visible light communication      small-world      wireless links      topology design     
Corresponding Author(s): Deke GUO   
Just Accepted Date: 27 December 2017   Online First Date: 06 August 2018    Issue Date: 25 June 2019
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Yudong QIN,Deke GUO,Lailong LUO, et al. Design and optimization of VLC based small-world data centers[J]. Front. Comput. Sci., 2019, 13(5): 1034-1047.
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