Load balancing in data center networks: A survey

J Zhang, FR Yu, S Wang, T Huang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data center networks usually employ the scale-out model to provide high bisection
bandwidth for applications. A large amount of data is required to be transferred frequently …

An overview of queuing delay and various delay based algorithms in networks

A Roy, JL Pachuau, AK Saha - Computing, 2021 - Springer
In the era of modern technology, the demand for seamless and fast communication service
is gradually increasing. Moreover, as time goes on, more devices are getting connected to …

Traffic engineering with equal-cost-multipath: An algorithmic perspective

M Chiesa, G Kindler, M Schapira - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To efficiently exploit the network resources operators, do traffic engineering (TE), ie, adapt
the routing of traffic to the prevailing demands. TE in large IP networks typically relies on …

Deep Q-learning for routing schemes in SDN-based data center networks

Q Fu, E Sun, K Meng, M Li, Y Zhang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to adapt to the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, and other
technologies, the combination of data center networks and SDN is proposed to make …

CAPS: Coding-based adaptive packet spraying to reduce flow completion time in data center

J Hu, J Huang, W Lv, Y Zhou, J Wang… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern data-center applications generate a diverse mix of short and long flows with different
performance requirements and weaknesses. The short flows are typically delay-sensitive but …

Online elephant flow prediction for load balancing in programmable switch based DCN

S **e, G Hu, C **ng, Y Liu - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the data center network, traffic has a distinct heavy-tailed distribution characteristic, with
the minority of throughput-sensitive elephant flows occupy most of the bandwidth and the …

Flex: A flowlet-level load balancing based on load-adaptive timeout in DCN

X Diao, H Gu, X Yu, L Qin, C Luo - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Load balancing mechanisms spread traffic across multiple paths to achieve high throughput
and low latency in data center networks. Flowlet switching has been proven to be a powerful …

DeFlow: Differential flowlet switching for load balancing in datacenter networks

Y Wan, H Song, Y Jia, Y Wang, L Qian, T Pan - Computer Networks, 2025 - Elsevier
Multipath enhances the reliability and bandwidth of datacenter networks, but it also
necessitates effective load balancing. The dynamic nature of traffic and diverse flow …

TLB: Traffic-aware load balancing with adaptive granularity in data center networks

J Hu, J Huang, W Lv, W Li, J Wang, T He - Proceedings of the 48th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Modern datacenter topologies typically are multi-rooted trees consisting of multiple paths
between any given pair of hosts. Recent load balancing designs focus on making full use of …

SDN-based routing framework for elephant and mice flows using unsupervised machine learning

M Al-Saadi, A Khan, V Kelefouras, DJ Walker… - Network, 2023 - mdpi.com
Software-defined networks (SDNs) have the capabilities of controlling the efficient
movement of data flows through a network to fulfill sufficient flow management and effective …