9. Conclusion
In this paper, we proposed a novel data center architecture named NovaCube, and presented its design and key properties. As a switchless architecture, NovaCube’s cost-effectiveness is highlighted with regard to its energy consumption and infrastructure cost. As proved, NovaCube is also superior to other candidate architectures in terms of network diameter, throughput, average path length, bisection bandwidth, path diversity and fault tolerance. Further- more, the specially designed probabilistic weighted oblivious rout- ing algorithm PORA helps NovaCube achieve near-optimal average path length with better load balancing which can result in a better throughput. Moreover, PORA is also free of livelock and deadlock. The simulation results further prove the good performance of No- vaCube.