As a fusion of various emerging digital technologies, the Metaverse aims to build a virtual
shared digital space. It is closely related to extended reality, digital twin, blockchain, and …

With the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of connected
devices is growing at an exponential rate, which is contributing to ever-increasing, massive …

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering
services over the Internet. Cloud computing is attractive to business owners as it eliminates …

Distributed storage systems for large clusters typically use replication to provide reliability.
Recently, erasure codes have been used to reduce the large storage overhead of three …

Although there is tremendous interest in designing improved networks for data centers, very
little is known about the network-level traffic characteristics of data centers today. In this …

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 …

The basic building block of ever larger data centers has shifted from a rack to a modular
container with hundreds or even thousands of servers. Delivering scalable bandwidth …

The effects of data center traffic characteristics on data center traffic engineering is not well
understood. In particular, it is unclear how existing traffic engineering techniques perform …