Jereczek, Grzegorz and Lehmann-Miotto, Giovanna and Malone, David and Walukiewicz, Miroslaw (2017) Approaching incast congestion with multi-host ethernet controllers. In: 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 6-8 November 2017, Berlin, Germany.

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Abstract

The bursty many-to-one communication pattern, typical for data acquisition systems, but also present in datacenter networks, is particularly demanding for commodity TCP/IP and Ethernet technologies. We expand our study of building incast-resistant networks based on software switches running on commercial-off-the-shelf servers. In this paper we provide the estimates for costs and physical area required to build such a network. Our estimates indicate that our proposed design offers significant cost advantage over traditional solutions, but higher space utilisation. Next, we show how the latter can be improved with multi-host Ethernet controllers, as an alternative to typical network interface cards. This can also make software switching easier to adapt in datacenter as a solution for incast congestion. We confirm the capabilities for incast-avoidance by evaluating the performance of a reference platform.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	This is the preprint version of the published paper, which is available at DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169824
Keywords:	computer centres; data acquisition; IP networks; local area networks; network interfaces; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	10058
Depositing User:	Dr. David Malone
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2018 14:20
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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