IP Multicast is not used in data center but it should be beneficial. This is because of several reasons:
[more]
Liao et al (2010) DPillar: Scalable Dual-Port Server Interconnection for Data Center Networks (ICCCN)
This paper proposed a server-centric method to connect a large number of servers to build a data center network.
[more]
Rodriguez et al (2009) Oblivious Routing Schemes in Extended Generalized Fat Tree Networks (CLUSTER)
The subject of study in this paper is a generalized fat tree. It has n levels of switch and each switch can have different number of downstream and upstreams. A regular fat tree, \(k\)-ary \(n\)-tree, has each switch connects to \(k\) downstreams.
[more]
Oki et al (2009) Efficient Load-Balanced IP Routing Scheme Based on Shortest Paths in Hose Model (ICC)
Similar paper:
[more]
Al-Qudah et al (2009) Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform (WWW)
PDF
[more]