Abstract
In data center networks, handling microbursts is crucial to user experience because the microburst causes excessive packet losses in shallow buffered switches. Explicit congestion notification (ECN) enables the switch to absorb microbursts by leaving buffer headroom, but has a fundamental trade-off between latency and throughput. In this letter, we propose LossPass, a switch port management scheme that achieves low latency and high throughput simultaneously. LossPass breaks the trade-off of ECN by absorbing microbursts without headroom. Intensive benchmark results demonstrate that LossPass reduces the average and tail latency of small flows while maintaining line-rate throughput.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 8672925 |
| Pages (from-to) | 806-809 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Communications Letters |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 May 1 |
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Keywords
- Data center networks
- ECN
- microbursts
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Modelling and Simulation
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Absorbing Microbursts Without Headroom for Data Center Networks. / Kim, Gyuyeong; Lee, Wonjun.
In: IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 23, No. 5, 8672925, 01.05.2019, p. 806-809.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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