Load balancing in data center networks: A survey

J Zhang, FR Yu, S Wang, T Huang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data center networks usually employ the scale-out model to provide high bisection
bandwidth for applications. A large amount of data is required to be transferred frequently …

Load balancing for heterogeneous traffic in datacenter networks

J Wang, S Rao, Y Liu, PK Sharma, J Hu - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
In modern datacenter networks (DCNs), the overwhelming heterogeneous flows have
various stringent demands, ranging from delay-sensitive short flows, throughput-sensitive …

Micro load balancing in data centers with DRILL

S Ghorbani, B Godfrey, Y Ganjali… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
The trend towards simple data center network fabric strips most network functionality,
including load balancing capabilities, out of the network core and pushes them to the edge …

Data center networking with multipath TCP

C Raiciu, C Pluntke, S Barre, A Greenhalgh… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Recently new data center topologies have been proposed that offer higher aggregate
bandwidth and location independence by creating multiple paths in the core of the network …

Explicit multipath congestion control for data center networks

Y Cao, M Xu, X Fu, E Dong - Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
The vast majority of application traffic in modern data center networks (DCNs) can be
classified into two categories: throughput-sensitive large flows and latency-sensitive small …

WCMP: Weighted cost multipathing for improved fairness in data centers

J Zhou, M Tewari, M Zhu, A Kabbani… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Data Center topologies employ multiple paths among servers to deliver scalable, cost-
effective network capacity. The simplest and the most widely deployed approach for load …

Scalable, optimal flow routing in datacenters via local link balancing

S Sen, D Shue, S Ihm, MJ Freedman - … of the ninth ACM conference on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Datacenter networks should support high network utilization. Yet today's routing is typically
load agnostic, so large flows can starve other flows if routed through overutilized links. Even …

Datacenter traffic control: Understanding techniques and tradeoffs

M Noormohammadpour… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Datacenters provide cost-effective and flexible access to scalable compute and storage
resources necessary for today's cloud computing needs. A typical datacenter is made up of …

Drill: Micro load balancing for low-latency data center networks

S Ghorbani, Z Yang, PB Godfrey, Y Ganjali… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The trend towards simple datacenter network fabric strips most network functionality,
including load balancing, out of the network core and pushes it to the edge. This slows …

[PDF][PDF] OpenFlow based load balancing for fat-tree networks with multipath support

Y Li, D Pan - Proc. 12th ieee international conference on …, 2013 - users.cis.fiu.edu
Data center networks are designed for satisfying the data transmission demand of densely
interconnected hosts in the data center. The network topology and routing mechanism can …