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 …

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 …

Auto: Scaling deep reinforcement learning for datacenter-scale automatic traffic optimization

L Chen, J Lingys, K Chen, F Liu - Proceedings of the 2018 conference of …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Traffic optimizations (TO, eg flow scheduling, load balancing) in datacenters are difficult
online decision-making problems. Previously, they are done with heuristics relying on …

{Information-Agnostic} flow scheduling for commodity data centers

W Bai, L Chen, K Chen, D Han, C Tian… - 12th USENIX Symposium …, 2015 - usenix.org
Many existing data center network (DCN) flow scheduling schemes minimize flow
completion times (FCT) based on prior knowledge of flows and custom switch functions …

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 …

Reducing internet latency: A survey of techniques and their merits

B Briscoe, A Brunstrom, A Petlund… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Latency is increasingly becoming a performance bottleneck for Internet Protocol (IP)
networks, but historically, networks have been designed with aims of maximizing throughput …

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 …

Friends, not foes: synthesizing existing transport strategies for data center networks

A Munir, G Baig, SM Irteza, IA Qazi, AX Liu… - Proceedings of the 2014 …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Many data center transports have been proposed in recent times (eg, DCTCP, PDQ, pFabric,
etc). Contrary to the common perception that they are competitors (ie, protocol A vs. protocol …

One more config is enough: Saving (DC) TCP for high-speed extremely shallow-buffered datacenters

W Bai, S Hu, K Chen, K Tan… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The link speed in production datacenters is growing fast, from 1 Gbps to 40 Gbps or even
100 Gbps. However, the buffer size of commodity switches increases slowly, eg, from 4 MB …

A survey of delay-based and hybrid TCP congestion control algorithms

R Al-Saadi, G Armitage, J But… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Congestion control (CC) has a significant influence on the performance of transmission
control protocol (TCP) connections. Over the last three decades, many researchers have …