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Datacenter transport layer protocols
Stanford and Microsoft, “DCTCP: Efficient Packet Transport for the Commoditized Data Center,” SIGCOMM, 2010. [PDF] Raiciu et al, “Improving Datacenter Performance and Robustness with Multipath TCP,” SIGCOMM, 2011. [PDF] MSR Asia, ICTCP: Incast Congestion Control for TCP in Data Center Networks,” CoNEXT, 2010. [PDF] Summary Datacenters pose a different set of challenges than the Internet, ...
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Understanding TCP Incast Throughput Collapse in Datacenter Networks
Y. Chen, R. Griffith, J. Liu, A. Joseph, R. H. Katz, “Understanding TCP Incast Throughput Collapse in Datacenter Networks,” Workshop on Research in Enterprise Networks (WREN’09), (August 2009). [PDF] Summary This paper presents a diagnosis of the TCP incast collapse problem and proposes a framework for a solution that should be: generalized: not limited to ...
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Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication
V. Vasudevan, A. Phanishayee, H. Shah, E. Krevat, D. G. Andersen, G. R. Ganger, G. A. Gibson, B. Mueller, “Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication,” ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2009). [PDF] The TCP Incast Collapse Problem In data centers with high-fan-in, high-bandwidth synchronized TCP workloads, receivers can experience a drastic reduction in ...
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