Wireless Data Center with Millimeter Wave Network

Data centers are becoming increasingly popular for a wide variety of applications such as search, gaming, email and so on. The complex wiring issues in data centers have motivated us to consider a wireless solution for data centers which meets the design goals of a typical data center network while providing the additional benefit of flexibility in the network. The wireless data center is based on the recently released IEEE 802.15.3c wireless networking standard in the 60 GHz ISM band. The standard supports multi-Gbps data rates and enables the transceivers to set up point-to-point links with each other, which makes it suitable for data center interconnects. In this paper, we use 60 GHz wireless technology to design a wireless data center and show how various data center interconnects such as 3-tier and fat-tree can be emulated on such a wireless network.