Jereczek, Grzegorz, Lehmann-Miotto, Giovanna, 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) |
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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 |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/10058 |
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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