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 …

High-performance routing with multipathing and path diversity in ethernet and HPC networks

M Besta, J Domke, M Schneider… - … on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent line of research into topology design focuses on lowering network diameter.
Many low-diameter topologies such as Slim Fly or Jellyfish that substantially reduce cost …

FatPaths: Routing in supercomputers and data centers when shortest paths fall short

M Besta, M Schneider, M Konieczny… - … Conference for High …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce FatPaths: a simple, generic, and robust routing architecture that enables state-
of-the-art low-diameter topologies such as Slim Fly to achieve unprecedented performance …

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About CCA Contention

L Brown, Y Kothari, A Narayan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper asks whether inter-flow contention between congestion control algorithms
(CCAs) is a dominant factor in determining a flow's bandwidth allocation in today's Internet …

Tuning the aggressive TCP behavior for highly concurrent HTTP connections in intra-datacenter

T Zhang, J Wang, J Huang, J Chen… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern data centers host diverse hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP)-based services, which
employ persistent transmission control protocol (TCP) connections to send HTTP requests …

Chopin: Combining distributed and centralized schedulers for self-adjusting datacenter networks

N Rozen-Schiff, KT Foerster, S Schmid… - … on Principles of …, 2023 - drops.dagstuhl.de
The performance of distributed and data-centric applications often critically depends on the
interconnecting network. Emerging reconfigurable datacenter networks (RDCNs) are a …

Site-to-site internet traffic control

F Cangialosi, A Narayan, P Goyal, R Mittal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Queues allow network operators to control traffic: where queues build, they can enforce
scheduling and shaping policies. In the Internet today, however, there is a mismatch …

HierCC: Hierarchical RDMA congestion control

J Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Guan, Z Wan, Y Xia… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
RDMA has been increasingly deployed in data centers to decrease latency and CPU
utilization. However, existing RDMA congestion control schemes fail to address …

Chopin: Combining distributed and centralized schedulers for self-adjusting datacenter networks

NR Schiff, KT Foerster, S Schmid, D Hay - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06131, 2022 - arxiv.org
The performance of distributed and data-centric applications often critically depends on the
interconnecting network. Emerging reconfigurable datacenter networks (RDCNs) are a …

Hierarchical Congestion Control (HCC): Fairness and Fast Convergence for Data Centers

S Ketabi, Y Ganjali - 2022 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Congestion control protocols face several challenges for achieving max-min fairness and
high throughput in a timely manner. In the absence of explicit signals, flows infer the …