Towards the Tradeoffs in Designing Data Center Network Architectures

doi:10.1109/TPDS.2016.2610970

	Towards the Tradeoffs in Designing Data Center Network Architectures
	Li, Dawei 1; Wu, Jie 1; Liu, Zhiyong 2; Zhang, Fa 3
	2017
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
ISSN	1045-9219
卷号	28 期号:1 页码:260-273
摘要	Existing Data Center Network (DCN) architectures are classified into two categories: switch-centric and server-centric architectures. In switch-centric DCNs, routing intelligence is placed on switches; each server usually uses only one port of the Network Interface Card (NIC) to connect to the network. In server-centric DCNs, switches are only used as cross-bars, and routing intelligence is placed on servers, where multiple NIC ports may be used. In this paper, we formally introduce a new category of DCN architectures: the dual-centric DCN architectures, where routing intelligence can be placed on both switches and servers. The dual-centric philosophy can achieve various tradeoffs in designing DCN architectures. We propose three novel dual-centric DCN architectures: FCell, FRectangle, and FSquare, all of which are based on the folded Clos topology. FCell is a power-efficient DCN architecture, with a larger diameter and lower bisection bandwidth than FSquare and FRectangle. FSquare is a high performance DCN architecture, in which the diameter is small and the bisection bandwidth is large; however, the DCN power consumption per server in FSquare is high. FRectangle significantly reduces the DCN power consumption per server, compared to FSquare, at the sacrifice of some networking performances. By investigating FCell, FRectangle and FSquare, and by comparing them with existing architectures, we demonstrate that, the three novel dual-centric architectures enjoy the advantages of both switch-centric designs and server-centric designs, have various nice properties for practical data centers, and provide flexible tradeoff choices in designing DCN architectures.
关键词	Data center network (DCN) power consumption end-to-end delay bisection bandwidth dual-centric design
DOI	10.1109/TPDS.2016.2610970
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	US National Science Foundation[CNS 1449860] ; US National Science Foundation[CNS 1461932] ; US National Science Foundation[CNS 1460971] ; US National Science Foundation[CNS 1439672] ; US National Science Foundation[CNS 1301774] ; US National Science Foundation[ECCS 1231461] ; NSFC[61520106005] ; NSFC[61521092]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering
WOS类目	Computer Science, Theory & Methods ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS记录号	WOS:000390676100020
出版者	IEEE COMPUTER SOC
引用统计	被引频次：17[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/7749
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Li, Dawei
作者单位	1.Temple Univ, Dept Comp & Informat Sci, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Comp Architecture, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Key Lab Intelligent Informat Proc, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Dawei,Wu, Jie,Liu, Zhiyong,et al. Towards the Tradeoffs in Designing Data Center Network Architectures[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS,2017,28(1):260-273.
APA	Li, Dawei,Wu, Jie,Liu, Zhiyong,&Zhang, Fa.(2017).Towards the Tradeoffs in Designing Data Center Network Architectures.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS,28(1),260-273.
MLA	Li, Dawei,et al."Towards the Tradeoffs in Designing Data Center Network Architectures".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 28.1(2017):260-273.