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 …

Industry experience indicates that the ability to incrementally expand data centers is
essential. However, existing high-bandwidth network designs have rigid structure that …

Conventional static datacenter (DC) network designs offer extreme cost vs. performance
tradeoffs---simple leaf-spine networks are cost-effective but oversubscribed, while" fat tree" …

The advent of virtualisation and the increasing demand for outsourced, elastic compute
charged on a pay-as-you-use basis has stimulated the development of large-scale Cloud …

Large-scale Internet applications, such as content distribution networks, are deployed
across multiple datacenters and consume massive amounts of electricity. To provide …

Despite extensive efforts to meet ever-growing demands, today's datacenters often exhibit
far-from-optimal performance in terms of network utilization, resiliency to failures, cost …

High throughput is of particular interest in data center and HPC networks. Although myriad
network topologies have been proposed, a broad head-to-head comparison across …

Content delivery networks (CDNs) deploy globally distributed systems of caches in a large
number of autonomous systems (ASes). It is important for a CDN operator to satisfy the …

With high throughput networks acquiring a crucial role in supporting data-intensive
applications, a variety of data center network topologies have been proposed to achieve …

Multicast benefits numerous data center applications that require group communication by
eliminating sending unnecessary duplicated packets in the network, thus significantly …