Tavakoli et al (2009) Applying NOX to the Datacenter (HotNets)
This paper argues whether we are necessary to use specialized solution for data center network.
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Log of numbers
It is well known to some of us: When you are dealing with numbers in computer, the floating point arithmetics makes you lost the precision. For example, adding a bunch of small numbers (e.g. a million of millionth) to a large number never gives an accurate result, unless you use...
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Kabbani (2010) AF-QCN: Approximate Fairness with Quantized Congestion Notification for Multi-tenanted Data Centers (HotI)
Consider a data center network using CEE (802.1Qau) with different tenants. If a tenant is running way larger number of flows, according to 802.1Qau, he can get most of the bandwidth because 802.1Qau only enforces per-flow fairness (even distribution) of bandwidth allocation. We cannot do (1) per-user even distribution and...
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Isard et al (2009) Quincy: Fair Scheduling for Distributed Computing Clusters (SOSP)
A paper from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley.
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Al-Fares et al (2010) Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks (NSDI)
This is about flow scheduling for multiroot networks using centralized server.
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