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The Datacenter Needs an Operating System
Matei Zaharia, Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Ali Ghodsi, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, “The Datacenter Needs an Operating System,” USENIX HotCloud, (June, 2011). [PDF] Summary In recent years, many have pondered whether the datacenter is the new computer. This paper answers that question somewhat positively and goes one step forward by ...
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X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Framework
R. Fonseca, G. Porter, R. H. Katz, S. Shenker, I. Stoica, “X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Framework,” NSDI’07, (April 2007). [PDF] Summary Diagnosing problems in modern distributed and networked systems is notoriously hard due to the involvement of multiple administrative domains, application and network protocols, and lack of determinism and reproducibility. X-Trace is a cross-layer, ...
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A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links
H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, R. H. Katz, “A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, (December 1997). [PDF] Summary Unlike wired networks, congestion is not the only source of packet loss in wireless networks. Networks with wireless and lossy links also suffer from significant losses due ...
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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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