Labeled network stack: a high-concurrency and low-tail latency cloud server framework for massive iot devices

WL Zhang, K Liu, YF Shen, YZ Lan, H Song… - Journal of Computer …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) applications have massive client connections to cloud
servers, and the number of networked IoT devices is remarkably increasing. IoT services …

QStack: Re-architecting User-space Network Stack to Optimize CPU Efficiency and Service Quality

WL Zhang, YF Shen, H Song, Z Zhang, K Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
TCP/IP network stack is irreplaceable for Web services in datacenter front-end servers, and
the demand for which is growing rapidly for emerging high concurrency network service …

Towards low-latency I/O services for mixed workloads using ultra-low latency SSDs

M Liu, H Liu, C Ye, X Liao, H Jin, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Low-latency I/O services are essential for latency-sensitive workloads when they co-run with
throughput-oriented workloads in cloud data centers. Although advanced SSDs such as Intel …

ORCA: A Network and Architecture Co-design for Offloading us-scale Datacenter Applications

Y Yuan, J Huang, Y Sun, T Wang, J Nelson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Responding to the" datacenter tax" and" killer microseconds" problems for datacenter
applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been proposed …

Deploying User-space {TCP} at Cloud Scale with {LUNA}

L Zhu, Y Shen, E Xu, B Shi, T Fu, S Ma… - 2023 USENIX Annual …, 2023 - usenix.org
The TCP remains the workhorse protocol for many modern large-scale data centers.
However, the increasingly demanding performance expectations—led by advancement in …

P-Socket: optimizing a communication library for a PCIe-based intra-rack interconnect

L Zhang, R Hou, SA McKee, J Dong… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Data centers require efficient, low-cost, flexible interconnects to manage the rapidly growing
internal traffic generated by an increasingly diverse set of applications. To meet these …

MAGNet: Machine Learning Guided Application-Aware Networking for Data Centers

H Chang, M Kodialam, TV Lakshman… - … on Cloud Computing, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern data centers are witnessing fast-growing east-west traffic on their network
infrastructure due to the highly distributed data center applications. Motivated by the …

Towards timeout-less transport in commodity datacenter networks

H Lim, W Bai, Y Zhu, Y Jung, D Han - Proceedings of the Sixteenth …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Despite recent advances in datacenter networks, timeouts caused by congestion packet
losses still remain a major cause of high tail latency. Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) was …

Reducing Datacenter Application Latency with Endhost NIC Support

R Kapoor, G Porter, M Tewari, GM Voelker, A Vahdat - 2012 - escholarship.org
In datacenter applications, predictability in service time and controlled latency, especially tail
latency, is essential for building performant applications. This is especially true for …

Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks

D Gibson, H Hariharan, E Lance, M McLaren… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2022 - usenix.org
Datacenter workloads have evolved from the data intensive, loosely-coupled workloads of
the past decade to more tightly coupled ones, wherein ultra-low latency communication is …