Energy-efficient routing in data centre networks

Abstract

The increasing development of online services and cloud computing have driven attention to research in data centre technology, particularly energy-efficiency in Data Centre Networks (DCN). This work includes an overview of state of the art research in this field, with two main approaches: energy-efficient DCN architectures and energy-efficient algorithms.

This project presents the implementation of a software simulation tool, whose objective is to simulate various DCN with different routing algorithms. In order to do this, network devices and architectures are modelled in Java, and a novel routing algorithm is implemented. The algorithm is taken from (2015, Wang et al), it is a greedy routing algorithm for multiresource data-flow requests, modelling Network as a Service (NaaS). The software design was conceived to be flexible, in order to facilitate further extensions to the project, such as the inclusion of more DCN architectures and/or routing algorithms.

The increasing development of online services and cloud computing have driven attention to research in data centre technology, particularly energy-efficiency in Data Centre Networks (DCN). This work includes an overview of state of the art research in this field, with two main approaches: energy-efficient DCN architectures and energy-efficient algorithms.

This project presents the implementation of a software simulation tool, whose objective is to simulate various DCN with different routing algorithms. In order to do this, network devices and architectures are modelled in Java, and a novel routing algorithm is implemented. The algorithm is taken from (2015, Wang et al), it is a greedy routing algorithm for multiresource data-flow requests, modelling Network as a Service (NaaS). The software design was conceived to be flexible, in order to facilitate further extensions to the project, such as the inclusion of more DCN architectures and/or routing algorithms.