What's the Story in {EBS} Glory: Evolutions and Lessons in Building Cloud Block Store

W Zhang, E Xu, Q Wang, X Zhang, Y Gu, Z Lu… - … USENIX Conference on …, 2024 - usenix.org
In this paper, we qualitatively and quantitatively discuss the design choices, production
experience, and lessons in building the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) at Alibaba Cloud over …

[HTML][HTML] TCP Stratos for stratosphere based computing platforms

AA Periola - Journal of Cloud Computing, 2024 - Springer
Stratosphere computing platforms (SCPs) benefit from free cooling but face challenges
necessitating transmission control protocol (TCP) re-design. The redesign should be …

The Case for Transport-Level Encryption in Datacenter Networks

T Gao, X Ma, S Narreddy, E Luo, SWD Chien… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Cloud applications need network data encryption to isolate from other tenants and protect
their data from potential eavesdroppers in the network infrastructure. This paper presents …

Characterizing TCP's Performance for Low-Priority Flows Inside a Cloud

HM Bashir, AB Faisal, FR Dogar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.08890, 2024 - arxiv.org
Many cloud systems utilize low-priority flows to achieve various performance objectives (eg,
low latency, high utilization), relying on TCP as their preferred transport protocol. However …

[PDF][PDF] Burstable Cloud Block Storage with Data Processing Units

J Shu, K Qian, E Zhai, X Liu, X Jin - ennanzhai.github.io
Cloud block storage (CBS) is a key pillar of public clouds. Today's CBS distinguishes itself
from physical counterparts (eg, SSDs) by offering unique burst capability as well as …