A Joint Batch-Routing and Channel Assignment Approach in Hybrid Data Center Networks

Data centers are dealing with a rich panoply of applications which are distributed across thousands of servers. In this context, Cloud providers seek to maximize their revenue by meeting the tremendous traffic demand. Unfortunately, the conventional wired infrastructures struggle to resist to such a traffic explosion and new innovative techniques are required. In this respect, we put forward a Hybrid Data Center Network architecture based on the CISCO's Massively Scalable Data Center model, that leverages both the wired (Fiber/Ethernet) and wireless (IEEE 802.11ad) infrastructures. In this paper, we address the problem of batch-routing jointly to spectrum allocation of intra-data center communication flows. To do so, first, we formulate the problem based on Multi-Commodity Flow problem while considering interference constraints. Then, we propose a new strategy named Joint Batch Routing and Channel assignment approach in HDCN (BR-HDCN). Based on extensive simulations conducted in QualNet simulator while considering the full protocol stack, the obtained results for both: i) real Facebook's DC, and ii) uniform, traces, show that our proposal outperforms the related prominent strategies.