Network congestion is one of the biggest problems facing HPC systems today, affecting
system throughput, performance, user experience, and reproducibility. Congestion manifests …

In recent years, much attention has been focused on deploying service function chains
(SFCs), each of which is composed of a set of virtual network functions (VNFs) in a specified …

In datacenter networks, bandwidth-demanding elephant flows without deadline and delay-
sensitive mice flows with strict deadline coexist. They compete with each other for limited …

Load balancing in data center networks (DCNs) is a crucial and complex undertaking. Multi-
path TCP (MPTCP) has been proposed as a cost-effective solution that aims to distribute …

Virtualization and emulation have become worthy approaches to save significant amounts of
money related to physical resource acquisition expenditures. In light of this, the development …

Today's data center operators deploy network policies in both physical (eg, middleboxes,
switches) and virtualized (eg, virtual machines on general purpose servers) network function …

The state-of-the-art datacenter load balancing designs commonly optimize bisection
bandwidth with homogeneous switching granularity. Their performances surprisingly …

Duplication can be a powerful strategy for overcoming stragglers in cloud services, but is
often used conservatively because of the risk of overloading the system. We call for making …

Popular dispatching policies such as the join shortest queue (JSQ), join smallest work (JSW)
and their power of two variants are used in load balancing systems where the instantaneous …

Cloud applications have reshaped the model of services and infrastructure of the Internet.
Search engines, social networks, content delivery and retail and e-commerce sites belong to …