Nephele - eNd to End scalable and dynamically reconfigurable oPtical arcHitecture for application-awarE SDN cLoud datacentErs

NEPHELE is developing a dynamic optical network infrastructure for future scale-out, disaggregated datacenters. NEPHELE builds on the enormous capacity of optical links and leverages hybrid optical switching to attain the ideal combination of high bandwidth at reduced cost and power compared to current datacenter networks. The project is performing multidisciplinary research, extending from the datacenter architecture to the overlaying control plane and to the interfaces with the application, in order to deliver a fully functional networking solution. Driven by user needs, NEPHELE’s end-to-end development path aims to bridge innovative research with near-market exploitation, achieving transformational impact in datacentre networks that will pave the way to exascale infrastructures. NEPHELE is a research project on optical network technologies, supported by the Horizon2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation of the European Commission.

Paper Output

  • P Bakopoulos, K Tokas, C Spatharakis, I Patronas, G Landi, K Christodoulopoulos, M Capitani, A Kyriakos, M Aziz, D Reisis, E Varvarigos, E Zahavi, H Avramopoulos, "Optical datacenter network employing slotted (TDMA) operation for dynamic resource allocation", SPIE OPTO, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States, February 2018.
  • Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, Giada Landi, Muzzamil Aziz, Eitan Zahavi, Domenico Gallico, Richard Pitwon, Konstantinos Tokas, Ioannis Patronas, Marco Capitani, Christos Spatharakis, Konstantinos Yiannopoulos, Kai Wang, Konstantinos Kontodimas, Ioannis Lazarou, Philipp Wieder, Dionysios I Reisis, Emmanouel Manos Varvarigos, Matteo Biancani, Hercules Avramopoulos, "NEPHELE: An End-to-End Scalable and Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical Architecture for Application-Aware SDN Cloud Data Centers", IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Feb. 2018
  • Ioannis Patronas, Vasileios Kitsakis, Nikolaos Gkatzios, Dionysios Reisis, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos and Emmanouel Varvarigos, "Scheduler Accelerator for TDMA Data Centers", 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, PDP 2018, Cambridge United Kingdom, March 2018
  • A. Kyriakos, T. Tsavalos, D. Reisis, "Management Tool for the “Nephele” Data Center Communication Agent", Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 144-150, November 2018
  • K. Tokas, C. Spatharakis, I. Patronas, P. Bakopoulos, G. Landi, K. Christodoulopoulos, M. Capitani, A. Kyriakos, M. Aziz, R. Pitwon, D. Gallico, D. Reisis, E. Varvarigos, E. Zahavi, H. Avramopoulos, "Real time demonstration of an end-to-end optical datacenter network with dynamic bandwidth allocation", 44th European Conference on Optical Communication-ECOC, Rome, Italy, September 2018
  • A. Kyriakos, I. Patronas, G. Tzimas, V. Kitsakis, D. Reisis, "Virtual Output Queues Architecture for High Throughput Data Center Nodes", Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 97-104, September 2018
  • G. Landi, I. Patronas, K. Kontodimas, M. Aziz, K. Christodoulopoulos, A. Kyriakos, M. Capitani, A. Hamedani, D. Reisis, E. Varvarigos, P. Bakopoulos, H. Avramopoulos, "SDN Control Framework with Dynamic Resource Assignment for Slotted Optical Datacenter Networks", 2017 Optical Fiber Communication Conference(OFC), Los Angeles, California, USA, March 2017.
  • Christos Spatharakis, Konstantinos Tokas, Ioannis Patronas, Dionysios Reisis, Paraskevas Bakopoulos and Hercules Avramopoulos, "Slotted TDMA and optically switched network for disaggregated datacenters", 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Girona, Catalonia, Spain, July 2017.
  • K. Tokas, C. Spatharakis, I. Kanakis, P. Bakopoulos, N. Iliadis, H. Avrampoulos, I. Patronas, N. Liakopoulos, D. Reisis, "A Scalable Optically-Switched Datacenter Network with Multicasting ", in the proceedings of European Conference on Networks and Communications, Athens, June 2016.
  • Ioannis Patronas, Angelos Kyriakos, Dionysios Reisis, "Switching Functions of a Data Center Top-of-Rack (ToR) ", 23rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems, Monte Carlo Monaco, Dec. 2016.