ProActive routing in scalable data centers with PARIS

Dushyant Arora, Theophilus Benson, Jennifer L. Rexford

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Abstract

Modern data centers must scale to a large number of servers, while offering flexible placement and migration of virtual machines. The traditional approach of connecting layer-two pods through a layer-three core constrains VM placement. More recent 'flat' designs are more flexible but have scalability limitations due to flooding/broadcasting or querying directories of VM locations. Rather than reactively learn VM locations, our PARIS architecture has a controller that pre-positions IP forwarding entries in the switches. Switches within a pod have complete information about the VMs beneath them, while each core switch maintains complete forwarding state for part of the address space. PARIS offers network designers the flexibility to choose a topology that meets their latency and bandwidth requirements. We evaluate our PARIS prototype built using OpenFlow-compliant switches and NOX controller. Using PARIS we can build a data center network that supports up to 100K servers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationDCC 2014 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2014 Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages5-10
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781450329927
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventACM SIGCOMM 2014 Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing, DCC 2014 - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Aug 18 2014Aug 18 2014

Publication series

NameDCC 2014 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2014 Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing

Other

OtherACM SIGCOMM 2014 Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing, DCC 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period8/18/148/18/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software

Keywords

  • data center networking
  • network virtualization
  • software-defined networking

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