SmartFCT: Improving power-efficiency for data center networks with deep reinforcement learning

P Sun, Z Guo, S Liu, J Lan, J Wang, Y Hu - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Reducing the power consumption of Data Center Networks (DCNs) and guaranteeing the
Flow Completion Time (FCT) of applications in DCNs are two major concerns for data center …

Towards an energy-efficient Data Center Network based on deep reinforcement learning

Y Wang, Y Li, T Wang, G Liu - Computer networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Data Center Network (DCN) plays a crucial role in orchestrating the physical or
virtual resources in data centers to meet the requirements of Internet of Things and Cloud …

AggreFlow: Achieving power efficiency, load balancing, and quality of service in data center networks

Z Guo, Y Xu, YF Liu, S Liu, HJ Chao… - IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power-efficient Data Center Networks (DCNs) have been proposed to save power of DCNs
using OpenFlow. In these DCNs, the OpenFlow controller adaptively turns on/off links and …

DiffTREAT: Differentiated traffic scheduling based on RNN in data centers

Z Wei, Q Li, K Zhu, J Zhou, L Zou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transmission schemes in data centers are supposed to accurately distinguish flow types for
different scheduling. However, prior efforts failed to meet the needs at all levels in a cost …

Distributed flow scheduling in energy-aware data center networks

R Liu, H Gu, X Yu, X Nian - IEEE Communications Letters, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the strategy of powering off unneeded network devices is proposed for energy-
aware data center networks (DCNs). However, efficient flow scheduling is required for …

Dynamic flow scheduling for power-efficient data center networks

Z Guo, S Hui, Y Xu, HJ Chao - 2016 IEEE/ACM 24th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power-efficient Data Center Networks (DCNs) have been proposed to save power of DCNs
using OpenFlow. In these DCNs, the OpenFlow controller adaptively turns on and off links …

Flash: Joint Flow Scheduling and Congestion Control in Data Center Networks

C Gao, S Chu, H Xu, M Xu, K Ye… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flow scheduling and congestion control are two important techniques to reduce flow
completion time in data center networks. While existing works largely treat them …

Software defined networking-based traffic engineering for data center networks

Y Han, S Seo, J Li, J Hyun, JH Yoo… - The 16th Asia-Pacific …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's Data Center Networks (DCNs) contain tens of thousands of hosts with significant
bandwidth requirements as the needs for cloud computing, multimedia contents, and big …

Flow splitter: A deep reinforcement learning-based flow scheduler for hybrid optical-electrical data center network

Y Tang, H Guo, T Yuan, X Gao, X Hong, Y Li… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid optical-electrical switching based data center network (HOE-DCN) has been
regarded as a promising architecture for the next generation data center network (DCN). To …

Rilnet: A reinforcement learning based load balancing approach for datacenter networks

Q Lin, Z Gong, Q Wang, J Li - … , MLN 2018, Paris, France, November 27–29 …, 2019 - Springer
Modern datacenter networks are facing various challenges, eg, highly dynamic workloads,
congestion, topology asymmetry. ECMP, as a traditional load balancing mechanism which is …