Wireless network connectivity in data centers

摘要

A method for wireless network connectivity in a data center includes communicating between nodes in a data center across a wireless interconnectivity through artificially created paths between nodes in the data center, the nodes being at least one of a server, router, switch, and other such components in the data center that require connectivity; and managing the wireless interconnectivity by a control and management entity.

主权项

1. A method for wireless network connectivity in a data center comprising the steps of:
communicating between nodes in a data center across a wireless interconnectivity through artificially created paths between nodes in the data center, the nodes being switches located in racks in the data center each connected to servers in the rack; managing the wireless interconnectivity by a control and management entity; said nodes are using a line-of-sight wireless communication path or a non-line-of-sight wireless communication path to enable communication of control and data packets between said switches, said communication comprising communication between switches on different racks; providing an admission control entity performs network resource management in order to map new services onto nodes to meet a quality of service; scheduling traffic from distinct services at individual nodes to maximize number of non-interfering transmissions per unit time while meeting predetermined delay and bandwidth guarantees between two nodes; and performing beam selection and steering and multi-hop route computation to select beams for the said wireless communication paths with a predetermined minimum interference to other transmissions on other wireless communication path.