Schedule

Introduction to optical communication

Aug 22
Fundamentals of light transmission: Part 1
Optional Reading: Chapter 1 (Textbook 1), Chapter 1 (Textbook 3)
Aug 24
Paper Discussion
InterTubes: A Study of the US Long-haul Fiber-optic Infrastructure

Programmable optics in the long-haul (Part 1)

Aug 29
Fundamentals of light transmission: Part 2
Optional Reading: Chapter 2 (Textbook 1)
Aug 31
Paper Discussion
ARROW: Restoration-Aware Traffic Engineering, Rate-adaptive wide area networks

Programmable optics in the long-haul (Part 2)

Sept 5
Programming optics, but to what end?
Optional Reading
Sept 7
Paper Discussion
Network planning with deep reinforcement learning, Cost-effective capacity provisioning in wide area networks with Shoofly

Programmable optics in the long-haul (Part 3)

Sept 12
No class today. Attend SIGCOMM in NYC!
Sept 14
Paper Discussion
An optical slice of the wide-area network, NSDI 2024, Optimizing Bulk Transfers with Software-Defined Optical WAN

Open research questions in long-haul optics

Sept 19
Research Project Pitch Presentations
Sept 21
Research Project Pitch Presentations

Programmable optics in the datacenter (Part 1)

Sept 26
Research Project Pitch Presentations
Sept 28
Paper Discussion
c-Through: part-time optics in data centers, Helios: a hybrid electrical/optical switch architecture for modular data centers

Programmable optics in the datacenter (Part 2)

Oct 03
Paper Discussion
FireFly: a reconfigurable wireless data center fabric using free-space optics, ProjecToR: Agile Reconfigurable Data Center Interconnect
Oct 05
Paper Discussion
JupiterRising:A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network, Jupiter evolving: transforming google’s datacenter network via optical circuit switches and software-defined networking

Programmable optics in the datacenter (Part 3)

Oct 10
No class, enjoy Fall break!
Oct 12
Paper Discussion
Google TPUv4, Shoal: A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks

Server-scale optical interconnects

Oct 17
No class, Rachee at Google Research Summit.
Oct 19
Lecture on server-scale optical interconnects

Mid-term project update presentations

Oct 24
Project updates 1
Oct 26
Project updates 2

Silicon Photonics

Oct 31
Lecture: Co-packaged Optics
Nov 2
Paper Discussion
Lightwave Fabrics: At-Scale Optical Circuit Switching for Datacenter and Machine Learning Systems , SiP Architecture For Accelerating Collective Communication in Distributed Deep Learning

Co-packaged optics

Nov 7
Lecture and discussion: Co-packaged Optics (continued)
Nov 9
Detailed discussion on co-packed optics
Sections 1, 2 of Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions

Co-packaged optics internals and applications

Nov 14
Detailed discussion on co-packed optics
Sections 3, 4 of Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions
Nov 16
Silicon Photonics for ML
SiP-ML:High-Bandwidth Optical Network Interconnects for Machine Learning Training, Collective communication library for programmable optical interconnects

Final presentations

Nov 21
Final Presentations
Nov 23
No Class, Thanksgiving Break

Final Project Presentations

Nov 28
Presentations
Nov 30
Presentations