Scheduling and performance evaluation of high line-rate space–wavelength routed switch for datacenter

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the performance of a high line-rate space–wavelength routed switch to assess its potential for use in large-scale datacenters. A scheduling technique is introduced for the switch to address challenges in packet arbitration taking into account a high line rate and large port-count. The traffic performance in terms of packet loss rate and latency of the switch is evaluated by simulations under various traffic patterns. The results show that even under burst traffic conditions, the packet loss rate and latency of the switch are almost independent of the switch size, which indicates that the switch could support a large number of nodes for switching without significant performance deterioration for both fixed and variable packet sizes. It is also found that a slight increase in the number of tunable transmitters in each node could lead to a great reduction in packet loss and latency for the switch.