TY - GEN
T1 - Hyper-BCube
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
AU - Lin, Dong
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Hamdi, Mounir
AU - Muppala, Jogesh
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Data center
KW - Fault tolerance
KW - Network topology
KW - Throughput
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871957448&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2012.6363759
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2012.6363759
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871957448
SN - 9781457720529
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 2918
EP - 2923
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Y2 - 10 June 2012 through 15 June 2012
ER -