This paper proposes the use of fat-tree topology in data center network and discuss its benefit. Architecture is described, including the addressing scheme, routing mechanism, flow scheduling for load-balancing.
Bibliographic data
@inproceedings{
title = "A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture",
author = "Mohammad Al-Fares and Alexander Loukissas and Amin Vahdat",
booktitle = "Proc SIGCOMM",
page = "63--74",
month = "Aug",
year = "2008",
address = "Seattle WA",
}