Ethernet is the survivor of the LAN wars. It is hard to find an IP packet that has not passed
over an Ethernet segment. One important reason for this is Ethernet's simplicity and ease of …

Network use has evolved to be dominated by content distribution and retrieval, while
networking technology still speaks only of connections between hosts. Accessing content …

Computer networks lack a general control paradigm, as traditional networks do not provide
any networkwide management abstractions. As a result, each new function (such as routing) …

We present the first large-scale analysis of failures in a data center network. Through our
analysis, we seek to answer several fundamental questions: which devices/links are most …

Today's data centers offer tremendous aggregate bandwidth to clusters of tens of thousands
of machines. However, because of limited port densities in even the highest-end switches …

To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across
large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to be …

A novel method for configuring first and second managed forwarding elements to perform
logical L2 switching and L3 routing is described. The method generates a first set of flow …

Ideally, enterprise administrators could specify fine-grain policies that drive how the
underlying switches forward, drop, and measure traffic. However, existing techniques for …

Data-intensive applications that operate on large volumes of data have motivated a fresh
look at the design of data center networks. The first wave of proposals focused on designing …

This paper considers the requirements for a scalable, easily manageable, fault-tolerant, and
efficient data center network fabric. Trends in multi-core processors, end-host virtualization …