This paper studies the problem of TCP in-cast in 802.1Qau network environment. This paper reveals that,
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Chen et al (2009) Understanding TCP Incast Throughput Collapse in Datacenter Networks (WREN)
Instead of storage networks, this paper studies the incast problem in data center running MapReduce.
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Vasudevan et al (2009) Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication (SIGCOMM)
Mostly same as the CMU Tech Report
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Phanishayee et al (2008) Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems (FAST)
Describes the incast problem in storage networks. The incast problem is first described in the following two literatures:
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Krevat et al (2007) On Application-level Approaches to Avoiding TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems (SC)
A short paper that addresses the approaches to be taken by the application layer to mitigate the incast scenario.
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