This paper introduces the Axon, an Ethernet-compatible device for creating large-scale datacenter networks. Axons are inexpensive, practical devices that are demonstrated using pr...
Jeffrey Shafer, Brent Stephens, Michael Foss, Scot...
Abstract— The goal of data center networking is to interconnect a large number of server machines with low equipment cost, high and balanced network capacity, and robustness to l...
Dan Li, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Songwu...
In enterprise and data center networks, the scalability of the data plane becomes increasingly challenging as forwarding tables and link speeds grow. Simply building switches with...
Routers built around a single-stage crossbar and a centralized scheduler do not scale, and (in practice) do not provide the throughput guarantees that network operators need to ma...
Isaac Keslassy, Shang-Tse Chuang, Kyoungsik Yu, Da...
—Aggregate scheduling is one of the most promising solutions to the issue of scalability in networks, like DiffServ networks and high speed switches, where hard QoS guarantees ar...