Generalized DCell structure for load-balanced data center networks

Markus Kliegl; Jason Lee; Jun Li; Xinchao Zhang; Chuanxiong Guo; David Rincón

doi:10.1109/INFCOMW.2010.5466647

Generalized DCell structure for load-balanced data center networks

Markus Kliegl, Jason Lee, Jun Li, Xinchao Zhang, Chuanxiong Guo, David Rincón

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Abstract

DCell [3] has been proposed as a server centric network structure for data centers. DCell can support millions of servers with high network capacity and provide good fault tolerance by only using commodity mini-switches. However, the traffic in DCell is imbalanced in that links at different layers carry very different number of flows. In this paper, we present a generalized DCell framework so that structures with different connecting rules can be constructed.We show that these structures still preserve the desirable properties of the original DCell structure. Furthermore, we show that the new structures are more symmetric and provide much better load-balancing when using shortest-path routing. We demonstrate the load-balancing property of the new structures by extensive simulations.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	INFOCOM 2010 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2010.5466647
State	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM 2010 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Mar 15 2010 → Mar 19 2010

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)	0743-166X

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Conference	IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	3/15/10 → 3/19/10

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General Computer Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Kliegl, M, Lee, J, Li, J, Zhang, X, Guo, C & Rincón, D 2010, Generalized DCell structure for load-balanced data center networks. in INFOCOM 2010 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops., 5466647, Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, United States, 3/15/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2010.5466647

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Generalized DCell structure for load-balanced data center networks

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