Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

Today's businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing, which brings both great
opportunities and challenges. One of the critical challenges is resiliency: disruptions due to …

Industry experience indicates that the ability to incrementally expand data centers is
essential. However, existing high-bandwidth network designs have rigid structure that …

The rapid development of cloud computing in recent years has deeply affected our lifestyles.
As core infrastructures of cloud computing, data centers have gained widespread attention …

Large companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft as well as a number of small and
medium enterprises daily process massive amounts of data in batch jobs and in real time …

Despite extensive efforts to meet ever-growing demands, today's datacenters often exhibit
far-from-optimal performance in terms of network utilization, resiliency to failures, cost …

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 …

High throughput is of particular interest in data center and HPC networks. Although myriad
network topologies have been proposed, a broad head-to-head comparison across …

Many data center network (DCN) applications require explicit routing path control over the
underlying topologies. This paper introduces XPath, a simple, practical and readily …

IP multicast would reduce significantly both network and server overhead for many
datacenter applications' communication. Unfortunately, traditional protocols for managing IP …