@inproceedings{4c1885ad240c43d3acab561c979dfeff,
title = "Efficient UDP-based congestion aware transport for data center traffic",
abstract = "Modern Data Centers (DCs) host hundreds of thousands of servers running diverse applications and services. The variety of these applications mandates distinct requirements such as latency and throughput. The state-of-the-art TCP protocol fails to meet these requirements, rendering the design of efficient DC transport protocols an urgent need. Since UDP is the most popular protocol besides TCP, it is a potential alternative to address this challenging problem. In this paper, we propose DCUDP, a UDP-like protocol for DCs which provides excellent congestion control using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN). DCUDP achieves excellent throughput both for normal and short flows through simulations. Furthermore, DCUDP guarantees fairness and convergence during periodic congestions (burstiness). Our experiments show that DCUDP outperforms many TCP-like protocols for data centers in terms of throughput, fairness and convergence.",
keywords = "Active Queue Management, Data center, Fairness, Throughput, UDP",
author = "Lisha Ye and Lotfi Mhamdi and Mounir Hamdi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.; 2014 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking, CloudNet 2014 ; Conference date: 08-10-2014 Through 10-10-2014",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1109/CloudNet.2014.6968967",
language = "English",
series = "2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Networking, CloudNet 2014",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "46--51",
booktitle = "2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Networking, CloudNet 2014",
address = "United States",
}