Metastability can arise whenever a signal is sampled close to a transition, leading to
indecision as to its correct value. Synchronizer circuits, which guard against metastability …

Large-scale data centers enable the new era of cloud computing and provide the core
infrastructure to meet the computing and storage requirements for both enterprise …

Internet-enabled cameras pervade daily life, generating a huge amount of data, but most of
the video they generate is transmitted over wires and analyzed offline with a human in the …

Programmable packet scheduling enables scheduling algorithms to be programmed into the
data plane without changing the hardware. Existing proposals either have no hardware …

We present a new cluster scheduler, GRAPHENE, aimed at jobs that have a complex
dependency structure and heterogeneous resource demands. Relaxing either of these …

Traditional measures of network goodness—goodput, quality of service, fairness—are
expressed in terms of bandwidth. Network latency has rarely been a primary concern …

RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
[RFC Home] [TEXT|PDF|HTML] [Tracker] [IPR] [Errata] [Info page] PROPOSED STANDARD …

Fair queuing is a technique that allows each flow passing through a network device to have
a fair share of network resources. Previous schemes for fair queuing that achieved nearly …

This paper presents Canopy, Facebook's end-to-end performance tracing infrastructure.
Canopy records causally related performance data across the end-to-end execution path of …

Provides a modern mathematical approach to the design of communication networks for
graduate students, blending control, optimization, and stochastic network theories. A broad …