Uniform-Cost Multi-Path Routing for Reconfigurable Data Center Networks

J Li, H Gong, F De Marchi, A Gong, Y Lei… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Reconfigurable data center networks (RDCNs) are arising as a promising data center
network (DCN) design in the post-Moore's law era. However, the constantly reconfigured …

Unison: A Parallel-Efficient and User-Transparent Network Simulation Kernel

S Bai, H Zheng, C Tian, X Wang, C Liu, X Jin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Discrete-event simulation (DES) is a prevalent tool for evaluating network designs. Although
DES offers full fidelity and generality, its slow performance limits its application. To speed up …

Lighthouse: An open research framework for optical data center networks

Y Lei, F De Marchi, J Li, R Joshi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Optical data center networks (DCNs) are emerging as a promising design for cloud
infrastructure. However, existing optical DCN architectures operate as closed ecosystems …

Pyxis: Scheduling Mixed Tasks in Disaggregated Datacenters

S Qi, C Jin, M Chowdhury, Z Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disaggregating compute from storage is an emerging trend in cloud computing. Effectively
utilizing resources in both compute and storage pool is the key to high performance. The …

Taming the Aggressiveness of Heterogeneous TCP Traffic in Data Center Networks

T Zhang, R Huang, J Huang, S Zou… - IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve low latency and high link utilization, ECN-based transport protocols (ie, DCTCP)
are widely deployed in data center networks (DCN). In multi-tenant environment, however …

Understanding the Throughput Bounds of Reconfigurable Datacenter Networks

V Addanki, C Avin, S Schmid - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20869, 2024 - arxiv.org
The increasing gap between the growth of datacenter traffic volume and the capacity of
electrical switches led to the emergence of reconfigurable datacenter network designs …

Rethinking Transport Protocols for Reconfigurable Data Centers: An Empirical Study

F De Marchi, W Bai, J Li, Y Xia - … of the 1st SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Fast-reconfiguring data center network architectures are rising as an answer to the
expanding gap between traditional switch capacities and cloud traffic demands. These …

Unlocking Diversity of Fast-Switched Optical Data Center Networks with Unified Routing

J Li, F De Marchi, Y Lei, R Joshi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Optical data center networks (DCNs) are emerging as a promising solution for cloud
infrastructure in the post-Moore's Law era, particularly with the advent of'fast-switched'optical …

COCSN: A Multi-tiered Cascaded Optical Circuit Switching Network for Data Center

S Li, H Gu, X Yu, H Huang, S Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cascaded network represents a classic scaling-out model in traditional electrical switching
networks. Recent proposals have integrated optical circuit switching at specific tiers of these …

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 …