[CCoE Notice] Thesis Announcement: Reconfigurable Scheduler for Stackable Optical Fabric

[Grayson, Audrey A]

MS Thesis Announcement
Reconfigurable Scheduler for Stackable Optical Fabric
Shalini Srivastava
Date: December 4th, 2014
Place: ECE Conference Room N328-D
Time: 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Committee Chair: Dr. Yuhua Chen
Committee Members:
Dr. E. Joe Charlson
Dr. Pauline Markenscoff
Dr. Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan


Abstract:

Because of the high bandwidth demand, the optical fabric becomes very important in Internet infrastructure. The switching technologies also pose unique challenges for optical fabric. The optical infrastructure has to face all these challenges created by advanced Internet technologies as well as the challenge of scalability of optical fabric. This thesis proposes a novel stackable structure of optical fabric which is easy to expand and has low installation cost.



        In this work, the concept of reconfigurable scheduler for stackable optical fabric is introduced, and the architecture of this scheduler is designed. The scheduler considers intrinsic connectivity of physical layers as well as the service requirements of application layer. In order to verify the design, the prototype is designed and realized on FPGA board. For evaluating the cost saving of the proposed stackable optical fabric, a general cost model is developed and compared with the flat optical fabric. The stackable fabric is observed to be the trade-off between cost and performance.
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