TY - GEN
T1 - Improving the efficiency of server-centric data center network architectures
AU - Wang, Ting
AU - Xia, Yu
AU - Lin, Dong
AU - Hamdi, Mounir
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Data center network architecture is regarded as one of the most important determinants of network performance. As the most typical representatives of architecture design, the server-centric scheme stands out due to its good performance in various aspects. However, there still exist some critical shortcomings in these server-centric architectures. In order to provide an efficient solution to these shortcomings and improve the efficiency of server-centric architectures, in this paper, we propose a hardware based approach, named 'Forwarding Unit'. Furthermore, we put forward a traffic aware routing scheme for FlatNet to further evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of our approach. Both theoretical analysis and simulation experiments are conducted to measure its overall performance with respect to cost-effectiveness, fault-tolerance, system latency, packet loss ratio, aggregate bottleneck throughput, and average path length.
AB - Data center network architecture is regarded as one of the most important determinants of network performance. As the most typical representatives of architecture design, the server-centric scheme stands out due to its good performance in various aspects. However, there still exist some critical shortcomings in these server-centric architectures. In order to provide an efficient solution to these shortcomings and improve the efficiency of server-centric architectures, in this paper, we propose a hardware based approach, named 'Forwarding Unit'. Furthermore, we put forward a traffic aware routing scheme for FlatNet to further evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of our approach. Both theoretical analysis and simulation experiments are conducted to measure its overall performance with respect to cost-effectiveness, fault-tolerance, system latency, packet loss ratio, aggregate bottleneck throughput, and average path length.
KW - Data center network
KW - Flat network
KW - Server-centric
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84907000402&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2014.6883795
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2014.6883795
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84907000402
SN - 9781479920037
T3 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014
SP - 3088
EP - 3093
BT - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2014 1st IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014
Y2 - 10 June 2014 through 14 June 2014
ER -