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

W **a, P Zhao, Y Wen, H **e - IEEE communications surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers (DCs), owing to the exponential growth of Internet services, have emerged as
an irreplaceable and crucial infrastructure to power this ever-growing trend. A DC typically …

Datacenter traffic control: Understanding techniques and tradeoffs

M Noormohammadpour… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Datacenters provide cost-effective and flexible access to scalable compute and storage
resources necessary for today's cloud computing needs. A typical datacenter is made up of …

Sirius: A flat datacenter network with nanosecond optical switching

H Ballani, P Costa, R Behrendt, D Cletheroe… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The increasing gap between the growth of datacenter traffic and electrical switch capacity is
expected to worsen due to the slowdown of Moore's law, motivating the need for a new …

Homa: A receiver-driven low-latency transport protocol using network priorities

B Montazeri, Y Li, M Alizadeh… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Homa is a new transport protocol for datacenter networks. It provides exceptionally low
latency, especially for workloads with a high volume of very short messages, and it also …

Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance

M Handley, C Raiciu, A Agache, A Voinescu… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Modern datacenter networks provide very high capacity via redundant Clos topologies and
low switch latency, but transport protocols rarely deliver matching performance. We present …

pFabric: Minimal near-optimal datacenter transport

M Alizadeh, S Yang, M Sharif, S Katti… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we present pFabric, a minimalistic datacenter transport design that provides
near theoretically optimal flow completion times even at the 99th percentile for short flows …

Presto: Edge-based load balancing for fast datacenter networks

K He, E Rozner, K Agarwal, W Felter, J Carter… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Datacenter networks deal with a variety of workloads, ranging from latency-sensitive small
flows to bandwidth-hungry large flows. Load balancing schemes based on flow hashing, eg …

{Information-Agnostic} flow scheduling for commodity data centers

W Bai, L Chen, K Chen, D Han, C Tian… - 12th USENIX Symposium …, 2015 - usenix.org
Many existing data center network (DCN) flow scheduling schemes minimize flow
completion times (FCT) based on prior knowledge of flows and custom switch functions …

Drill: Micro load balancing for low-latency data center networks

S Ghorbani, Z Yang, PB Godfrey, Y Ganjali… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The trend towards simple datacenter network fabric strips most network functionality,
including load balancing, out of the network core and pushes it to the edge. This slows …

Let it flow: Resilient asymmetric load balancing with flowlet switching

E Vanini, R Pan, M Alizadeh, P Taheri… - 14th USENIX Symposium …, 2017 - usenix.org
Datacenter networks require efficient multi-path load balancing to achieve high bisection
bandwidth. Despite much progress in recent years towards addressing this challenge, a …