US 11,950,304 B2
Direct server-to-server wireless data center network and method thereof
Amlan Ganguly, West Henrietta, NY (US); Minseok Kwon, Pittsford, NY (US); Andres Kwasinski, Fairport, NY (US); Sayed Ashraf Mamun, Rochester, NY (US); and Sree Gowrishankar Umamaheswaran, Mishawaka, IN (US)
Assigned to Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (US)
Filed by Amlan Ganguly, West Henrietta, NY (US); Minseok Kwon, Pittsford, NY (US); Andres Kwasinski, Fairport, NY (US); Sayed Ashraf Mamun, Rochester, NY (US); and Sree Gowrishankar Umamaheswaran, Mishawaka, IN (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/388,007.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/659,267, filed on Apr. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0327780 A1, Oct. 24, 2019
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04B 10/114 (2013.01); H04L 49/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 40/20 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04B 10/114 (2013.01); H04L 49/40 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 40/20 (2013.01); H04W 40/248 (2013.01); H04W 52/02 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server-to-server wireless datacenter network, comprising:
a plurality of adjacent rows of server racks in a rectangular pattern with aisles running between the plurality of adjacent rows, each server rack comprising a vertical stack of a plurality of servers, each one of the adjacent rows comprising a plurality of adjacent server racks having each server therein disposed in a vertical plane of the row, wherein each server is horizontally aligned with a corresponding server in an adjacent row, in a three-dimensional space; and
wireless links established along horizontal lines and vertical planes of the plurality of servers, the wireless links comprising a beam-steering directional transmitter and beam-steering directional receiver attached on a top of each server of the plurality of servers configured to provide direct server-to-server wireless gigabit speed communication in the horizontal direction and a beam-steering directional transmitter and beam-steering directional receiver attached on a side of each server in the vertical plane of the row of the plurality of servers configured to provide direct server-to-server wireless gigabit speed communication between servers disposed in the vertical plane of the row; wherein direct server-to-server wireless gigabit speed communication between any pair of servers can be provided in the three-dimensional space.