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 …

When idling is ideal: Optimizing tail-latency for heavy-tailed datacenter workloads with perséphone

HM Demoulin, J Fried, I Pedisich, M Kogias… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces Perséphone, a kernel-bypass OS scheduler designed to minimize tail
latency for applications executing at microsecond-scale and exhibiting wide service time …

Is advance knowledge of flow sizes a plausible assumption?

V Ðukić, SA Jyothi, B Karlaš, M Owaida… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2019 - usenix.org
Recent research has proposed several packet, flow, and coflow scheduling methods that
could substantially improve data center network performance. Most of this work assumes …

Flow scheduling with imprecise knowledge

W Li, X He, Y Liu, K Li, K Chen, Z Ge, Z Guan… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Most existing data center network (DCN) flow scheduling solutions aim to minimize flow
completion times (FCT). However, these solutions either require precise flow information …

Towards {Domain-Specific} Network Transport for Distributed {DNN} Training

H Wang, H Tian, J Chen, X Wan, J Xia, G Zeng… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
The nature of machine learning (ML) applications exposes rich characteristics to underlying
network transport, yet little work has been done so far to systematically exploit these …

SmartFCT: Improving power-efficiency for data center networks with deep reinforcement learning

P Sun, Z Guo, S Liu, J Lan, J Wang, Y Hu - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Reducing the power consumption of Data Center Networks (DCNs) and guaranteeing the
Flow Completion Time (FCT) of applications in DCNs are two major concerns for data center …

Packet order matters! improving application performance by deliberately delaying packets

H Ghasemirahni, T Barbette, GP Katsikas… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2022 - usenix.org
Data centers increasingly deploy commodity servers with high-speed network interfaces to
enable low-latency communication. However, achieving low latency at high data rates …

Towards fine-grained and practical flow control for datacenter networks

W Li, C Zeng, J Hu, K Chen - 2023 IEEE 31st International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As datacenter networks continue to support a wider range of applications and faster link
speeds, they face the challenge of managing bursty traffic and transient congestion. End-to …

Workload scheduling toward worst‐case delay and optimal utility for single‐hop Fog‐IoT architecture

Y Deng, Z Chen, D Zhang, M Zhao - IET Communications, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fog computing is a distributed computing model that can utilise the storage, analysis and
processing capabilities of fog nodes near edge devices. Although fog computing can …

Efficient file dissemination in data center networks with priority-based adaptive multicast

S Luo, H Yu, K Li, H Xing - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In today's data center networks (DCN), cloud applications commonly disseminate files from a
single source to a group of receivers for service deployment, data replication, software …