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 …

Network topology design at 27,000 km/hour

D Bhattacherjee, A Singla - … of the 15th International Conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Upstart space companies are actively developing massive constellations of low-flying
satellites to provide global Internet service. We examine the problem of designing the inter …

An in-depth analysis of the slingshot interconnect

D De Sensi, S Di Girolamo… - … Conference for High …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The interconnect is one of the most critical components in large scale computing systems,
and its impact on the performance of applications is going to increase with the system size …

Expanding across time to deliver bandwidth efficiency and low latency

WM Mellette, R Das, Y Guo, R McGuinness… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Datacenters need networks that support both low-latency and high-bandwidth packet
delivery to meet the stringent requirements of modern applications. We present Opera, a …

Xpander: Towards optimal-performance datacenters

A Valadarsky, G Shahaf, M Dinitz… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Beyond fat-trees without antennae, mirrors, and disco-balls

S Kassing, A Valadarsky, G Shahaf… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies have observed that large data center networks often have a few hotspots
while most of the network is underutilized. Consequently, numerous data center network …

A throughput-centric view of the performance of datacenter topologies

P Namyar, S Supittayapornpong, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
While prior work has explored many proposed datacenter designs, only two designs, Clos-
based and expander-based, are generally considered practical because they can scale …

Survey on algorithms for self-stabilizing overlay networks

M Feldmann, C Scheideler, S Schmid - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The maintenance of efficient and robust overlay networks is one of the most fundamental
and reoccurring themes in networking. This article presents a survey of state-of-the-art …

Survey of reconfigurable data center networks: Enablers, algorithms, complexity

KT Foerster, S Schmid - ACM SIGACT News, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Emerging optical technologies introduce opportunities to recon gure network topologies at
runtime. The resulting topological exibilities can be exploited to design novel demand-aware …

Elmo: Source routed multicast for public clouds

M Shahbaz, L Suresh, J Rexford, N Feamster… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We present Elmo, a system that addresses the multicast scalability problem in multi-tenant
datacenters. Modern cloud applications frequently exhibit one-to-many communication …