A survey on data center networking (DCN): Infrastructure and operations

W ** at end hosts
A Saeed, N Dukkipati, V Valancius, V The Lam… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Traffic sha**, including pacing and rate limiting, is fundamental to the correct and efficient
operation of both datacenter and wide area networks. Sample use cases include policy …

One more config is enough: Saving (DC) TCP for high-speed extremely shallow-buffered datacenters

W Bai, S Hu, K Chen, K Tan… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The link speed in production datacenters is growing fast, from 1 Gbps to 40 Gbps or even
100 Gbps. However, the buffer size of commodity switches increases slowly, eg, from 4 MB …

TCP incast solutions in data center networks: A classification and survey

M Alipio, NM Tiglao, F Bokhari, S Khalid - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In recent years, Data Centers Networks (DCNs) have been deployed to serve as the
backbone to support the extensive variety of services offered through the Internet like social …

Floodgate: Taming incast in datacenter networks

K Liu, C Tian, Q Wang, H Zheng, P Yu, W Sun… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Incast occurs frequently in datacenter networks where a large number of senders send data
to a single receiver simultaneously, which makes the last hop the network bottleneck. Incast …

P-PFC: Reducing tail latency with predictive PFC in lossless data center networks

C Tian, B Li, L Qin, J Zheng, J Yang… - … on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology rapidly changes the landscape of
nowadays datacenter applications. Congestion control for RDMA networking is a critical …

Rethinking fast and friendly transport in data center networks

T Zhang, J Huang, K Chen, J Wang… - IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The sustainable growth of bandwidth has been an inevitable tendency in current Data
Center Networks (DCN). However, the dramatic expansion of link capacity offers a …

Adjusting packet size to mitigate TCP incast in data center networks with COTS switches

J Huang, Y Huang, J Wang, T He - IEEE Transactions on Cloud …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In data center networks, a large number of concurrent TCP connections suffer the TCP Incast
throughput collapse due to packet drops in shallow-buffered Ethernet switches. In this work …

Flow-aware adaptive pacing to mitigate TCP incast in data center networks

S Zou, J Huang, J Wang, T He - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In data center networks, many network-intensive applications leverage large fan-in and
many-to-one communication to achieve high performance. However, the special traffic …

Survey on traffic management in data center network: from link layer to application layer

W Li, J Liu, S Wang, T Zhang, S Zou, J Hu… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the explosive growth of all kinds of Internet services, data centers have become an
irreplaceable and vital infrastructure to support this soaring trend. Compared with traditional …