This Tutorial will discuss the motivation, benefits, and challenges of photonic switching in
data centers and cover prospects of future data centers involving emerging new …

Data centers are growing exponentially (in number and size) to accommodate the escalating
user and application demands. Likewise, the concerns about the environmental impacts …

The increasing gap between the growth of datacenter traffic and electrical switch capacity is
expected to worsen due to the slowdown of Moore's law, motivating the need for a new …

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of an API for applications to control a
software-defined network (SDN). Our API is implemented by an OpenFlow controller that …

Recent advances of software defined networking and optical switching technology make it
possible to program the network stack all the way from physical topology to flow level traffic …

The difficulty of building large data centers in dense metro areas is pushing big cloud
providers towards a different approach to scaling: multiple smaller data centers within tens of …

We introduce FlowComb, a network management framework that helps Big Data processing
applications, such as Hadoop, achieve high utilization and low data processing times …

The emergence of social computing enables users to intersect social behaviour with
computing systems and to create social conventions as well as social contexts through the …

Cloud computing is placing increasingly stringent demands on datacenter networks.
Applications like MapReduce and Hadoop demand high bisection bandwidth to support …

This paper presents our effort towards comprehensive traffic forecasting for big data
applications using external, light-weighted file system monitoring. Our idea is motivated by …