Hyper-BCube: A scalable data center network

Dong Lin*, Yang Liu, Mounir Hamdi, Jogesh Muppala

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Abstract

Mega data centers are being built around the world to provide various cloud computing services. As a result, data center networking has recently been a hot research topic in both academia and industry. A fundamental challenge in this research is the design of the data center network that interconnects the massive number of servers, and provides efficient and fault-tolerant routing service to upper-layer applications. In response to this challenge, the research community have begun exploring novel interconnect topologies including Fat-Tree, DCell, and BCube and etc. Understandably, this research is still in its infancy. The proposed solutions either scale too fast (i.e., double exponentially) or too slow, suffer from performance bottlenecks, or can be quite costly in both routing and construction. In this paper, we propose a cost-effective and gracefully scalable data center interconnect termed Hyper-BCube that combines the advantages of both DCell and BCube architectures while avoiding their limitations. We then propose fault-tolerant and routing mechanisms for Hyper-BCube. Finally, we propose a comprehensive benchmarking environment that can be used for accurately and practically evaluating and testing the proposed data center architecture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Pages2918-2923
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012 - Ottawa, ON, Canada
Duration: 10 Jun 201215 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa, ON
Period10/06/1215/06/12

Keywords

  • Data center
  • Fault tolerance
  • Network topology
  • Throughput

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