Datacenter WAN traffic consists of high priority transfers that have to be carried as soon as
they arrive alongside large transfers with pre-assigned deadlines on their completion …

As datacenter network bandwidth keeps growing, proactive transport becomes attractive,
where bandwidth is proactively allocated as" credits" to senders who then can send" …

Neither traffic engineering nor fixed prices (eg, $/GB) alone fully address the challenges of
highly utilized inter-datacenter WANs. The former offers more service to users who overstate …

The emerging deployment of geographically distributed data centers (DCs) incurs a
significant amount of data transfers over the Internet. Such transfers are typically charged by …

Several organizations have built multiple datacenters connected via dedicated wide area
networks over which large inter-datacenter transfers take place. Since many such transfers …

Many data center applications perform rich and complex tasks (eg, executing a search query
or generating a user's news-feed). From a network perspective, these tasks typically …

Web applications have now become so sophisticated that rendering a typical page may
require hundreds of intra-datacenter flows. At the same time, web sites must meet strict page …

Large datacenter operators with sites at multiple locations dimension their key resources
according to the peak demand of the geographic area that each site covers. The demand of …

Datacenters provide the infrastructure for cloud computing services used by millions of users
everyday. Many such services are distributed over multiple datacenters at geographically …

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 …