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The ever-expanding growth of internet traffic enforces deployment of massive Data Center Networks (DCNs) supporting high performance communications. Optical switching is being studied as a promising approach to fulfill the surging requirements of large scale data centers. Data center networks include hundreds of thousands of nodes that require flexible, high bandwidth, and low power infrastructures for their communications. Optical interconnection networks supply the required bandwidth, consuming much lower power compared to their electrical counterparts. The heterogeneous nature of data centers’ traffic needs a flexible network architecture which can be dynamically configured according to...