Distributed systems are traditionally designed independently from the underlying network,
making worst-case assumptions (eg, complete asynchrony) about its behavior. However …

Consensus mechanisms for ensuring consistency are some of the most expensive
operations in managing large amounts of data. Often, there is a trade off that involves …

Clock synchronization is critical for many datacenter applications such as distributed
transactional databases, consistent snapshots, and network telemetry. As applications have …

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 …

This paper proposes Clock-RSM, a new state machine replication protocol that uses loosely
synchronized physical clocks to totally order commands for geo-replicated services. Clock …

Coordination services are a fundamental building block of modern cloud systems, providing
critical functionalities like configuration management and distributed locking. The major …

It is commonly believed that datacenter networking software must sacrifice generality to
attain high performance. The popularity of specialized distributed systems designed …

Data centers have a crucial role in current Internet architecture supporting content-centric
networking. State-of-the-art data centers have different architectures like fat-tree, DCell, or …

Cloud platform services must simultaneously be scalable, meet low tail latency service-level
objectives, and be resilient to a combination of software, hardware, and network failures …

While today's data centers are multiplexed across many non-cooperating applications, they
lack effective means to share their network. Relying on TCP's congestion control, as we …