TY - GEN
T1 - Data center top of rack switch to multiple spine switches optical wireless uplinks
AU - Alhazmi, Abrar S.
AU - Alsulami, Osama Zwaid
AU - El-Gorashi, T. E.H.
AU - Alresheedi, Mohammed T.
AU - Elmirghani, Jaafar M.H.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) INTERNET (EP/H040536/1), STAR (EP/K016873/1) and TOWS (EP/S016570/1) projects. The authors extend their appreciation to the deanship of Scientific Research under the International Scientific Partnership Program ISPP at King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for funding this research work through ISPP#0093. ASA would like to thank Taibah University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for funding her PhD scholarship. OZA would like to thank Umm Al-Qura University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for funding his PhD scholarship, all data are provided in full in the results section of this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - Infrared (IR) uplinks can achieve high data rates, which are essential in a range of applications. This paper introduces a novel approach to enable data centre uplink communication. We introduce a novel method to enable communication between racks and spine switches. In our proposed data centre, we consider three racks, each of which has its own angle diversity transmitter (ADT) that is located on top of the rack. Four wide field of view receivers are fixed to the ceiling of the data centre. Each such receiver is connected to a spine switch. We evaluate the performance of our proposed system when each link operates at a data rate above 2.8 Gb/s. Multiple links can be used to achieve higher data rates using the space or wavelength dimensions. The results show that our proposed system has the ability to work at a high data rate with good performance while using simple on-off-keying.
AB - Infrared (IR) uplinks can achieve high data rates, which are essential in a range of applications. This paper introduces a novel approach to enable data centre uplink communication. We introduce a novel method to enable communication between racks and spine switches. In our proposed data centre, we consider three racks, each of which has its own angle diversity transmitter (ADT) that is located on top of the rack. Four wide field of view receivers are fixed to the ceiling of the data centre. Each such receiver is connected to a spine switch. We evaluate the performance of our proposed system when each link operates at a data rate above 2.8 Gb/s. Multiple links can be used to achieve higher data rates using the space or wavelength dimensions. The results show that our proposed system has the ability to work at a high data rate with good performance while using simple on-off-keying.
KW - Angle diversity receivers
KW - Data centers
KW - Optical wireless
KW - Uplink design
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UR - https://icton2020.fbk.eu/home
U2 - 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203506
DO - 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203506
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85092528885
SN - 9781728184241
T3 - International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
SP - 1
EP - 4
BT - 2020 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2020
A2 - Prudenzano, Francesco
A2 - Cojocaru, Crina
A2 - Urban, Patryk
A2 - Marciniak, Marian
PB - IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
CY - United States
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2020
Y2 - 19 July 2020 through 23 July 2020
ER -