A survey on data center networking (DCN): Infrastructure and operations

W Xia, P Zhao, Y Wen, H Xie - IEEE communications surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers (DCs), owing to the exponential growth of Internet services, have emerged as
an irreplaceable and crucial infrastructure to power this ever-growing trend. A DC typically …

A survey on resiliency techniques in cloud computing infrastructures and applications

C Colman-Meixner, C Develder… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing, which brings both great
opportunities and challenges. One of the critical challenges is resiliency: disruptions due to …

Jellyfish: Networking data centers randomly

A Singla, CY Hong, L Popa, PB Godfrey - 9th USENIX Symposium on …, 2012 - usenix.org
Industry experience indicates that the ability to incrementally expand data centers is
essential. However, existing high-bandwidth network designs have rigid structure that …

VMPlanner: Optimizing virtual machine placement and traffic flow routing to reduce network power costs in cloud data centers

W Fang, X Liang, S Li, L Chiaraviglio, N Xiong - Computer Networks, 2013 - Elsevier
In recent years, the power costs of cloud data centers have become a practical concern and
have attracted significant attention from both industry and academia. Most of the early works …

A survey on data center networking for cloud computing

B Wang, Z Qi, R Ma, H Guan, AV Vasilakos - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Data Center Networks (DCNs) are an essential infrastructure that impact the
success of cloud computing. A scalable and efficient data center is crucial in both the …

The features, hardware, and architectures of data center networks: A survey

T Chen, X Gao, G Chen - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
The rapid development of cloud computing in recent years has deeply affected our lifestyles.
As core infrastructures of cloud computing, data centers have gained widespread attention …

Camdoop: Exploiting in-network aggregation for big data applications

P Costa, A Donnelly, A Rowstron… - 9th USENIX Symposium on …, 2012 - usenix.org
Large companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft as well as a number of small and
medium enterprises daily process massive amounts of data in batch jobs and in real time …

{ShuffleWatcher}: Shuffle-aware scheduling in multi-tenant {MapReduce} clusters

F Ahmad, ST Chakradhar, A Raghunathan… - 2014 USENIX Annual …, 2014 - usenix.org
MapReduce clusters are usually multi-tenant (ie, shared among multiple users and jobs) for
improving cost and utilization. The performance of jobs in a multi-tenant MapReduce cluster …

On the characterization of the structural robustness of data center networks

K Bilal, M Manzano, SU Khan, E Calle… - … on Cloud Computing, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers being an architectural and functional block of cloud computing are integral to
the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Cloud computing is rigorously …

Small-world datacenters

JY Shin, B Wong, EG Sirer - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose an unorthodox topology for datacenters that eliminates all
hierarchical switches in favor of connecting nodes at random according to a small-world …