Reducing latency in multi-tenant data centers via cautious congestion watch

A M. Abdelmoniem, H Susanto, B Bensaou - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Modern data centers host a plethora of interactive data-intensive applications. These are
known to often generate large numbers of short-lived parallel flows that must complete their …

Just in time delivery: Leveraging operating systems knowledge for better datacenter congestion control

A Ousterhout, A Belay, I Zhang - 11th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics …, 2019 - usenix.org
Network links and server CPUs are heavily contended resources in modern datacenters. To
keep tail latencies low, datacenter operators drastically overprovision both types of …

Shenango: Achieving high {CPU} efficiency for latency-sensitive datacenter workloads

A Ousterhout, J Fried, J Behrens, A Belay… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2019 - usenix.org
Datacenter applications demand microsecond-scale tail latencies and high request rates
from operating systems, and most applications handle loads that have high variance over …

Taming latency in data centers via active congestion-probing

AM Abdelmoniem, B Bensaou… - 2019 IEEE 39th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In cloud environments, interactive applications deployed in data centers often generate
swarms of short-lived data transfers (or flows) that face dramatic competition for the scarce …

[PDF][PDF] Operating systems abstractions for software packet processing in datacenters

T Marian - 2011 - ecommons.cornell.edu
Over the past decade, the modern datacenter has reshaped the computing landscape by
providing a large scale consolidated platform that efficiently powers online services …

Stateless CPU-aware datacenter load-balancing

T Barbette, M Chiesa, GQ Maguire Jr… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Today, datacenter operators deploy Load-balancers (LBs) to efficiently utilize server
resources, but must over-provision server resources (by up to 30%) because of load …

Adjusting packet size to mitigate TCP incast in data center networks with COTS switches

J Huang, Y Huang, J Wang, T He - IEEE Transactions on Cloud …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In data center networks, a large number of concurrent TCP connections suffer the TCP Incast
throughput collapse due to packet drops in shallow-buffered Ethernet switches. In this work …

Understanding host network stack overheads

Q Cai, S Chaudhary, M Vuppalapati, J Hwang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Traditional end-host network stacks are struggling to keep up with rapidly increasing
datacenter access link bandwidths due to their unsustainable CPU overheads. Motivated by …

A SmartNIC-based Load Balancing and Auto Scaling Framework for Middlebox Edge Server

Z Ni, C Wei, T Wood, N Choi - 2021 IEEE Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge Cloud servers running network functions for cellular carriers must provide both high
performance and high resource efficiency. Recent research has focused on load balancing …

{FlashShare}: Punching Through Server Storage Stack from Kernel to Firmware for {Ultra-Low} Latency {SSDs}

J Zhang, M Kwon, D Gouk, S Koh, C Lee… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2018 - usenix.org
A modern datacenter server aims to achieve high energy efficiency by co-running multiple
applications. Some of such applications (eg, web search) are latency sensitive. Therefore …