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FairQ: Fair and Fast Rate Allocation in Data Centers

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Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Brahim Bensaou

Networking and Internet Architecture · Submitted 9 Jan 2024

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The authors' main claim The experimental results from real deployments in a small testbed cluster show the effectiveness of our approach.

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CitationAhmed M. Abdelmoniem, Brahim Bensaou. "FairQ: Fair and Fast Rate Allocation in Data Centers." arXiv:2401.04850 (2024). https://pith.science/paper/E24WQ7ZW
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The peculiar congestion patterns in data centers are caused by the bursty and composite nature of traffic, the small bandwidth-delay product, and the tiny switch buffers. It is not practical to modify TCP to adapt to data centers, especially in public clouds where multiple congestion control protocols coexist. In this work, we design a switch-based method to address such congestion issues; our approach does not require any modification to TCP, which enables easy and seamless deployment in public data centers via switch software update. We first present a simple analysis to demonstrate the stability and effectiveness of the scheme, and then we discuss a hardware NetFPGA switch-based prototype. The experimental results from real deployments in a small testbed cluster show the effectiveness of our approach.

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s0 The peculiar congestion patterns in data centers are caused by the bursty and composite nature of traffic, the small bandwidth-delay product, and the tiny switch buffers. background 1.00 0.18 0.03 asserted 1.00
s1 It is not practical to modify TCP to adapt to data centers, especially in public clouds where multiple congestion control protocols coexist. background 0.89 0.14 0.04 asserted 1.00
s2 In this work, we design a switch-based method to address such congestion issues; our approach does not require any modification to TCP, which enables easy and seamless deployment in public data centers via switch software update. contribution 0.91 0.92 0.47 asserted 0.99
s3 We first present a simple analysis to demonstrate the stability and effectiveness of the scheme, and then we discuss a hardware NetFPGA switch-based prototype. method 0.51 0.93 0.07 asserted 0.85
s4 The experimental results from real deployments in a small testbed cluster show the effectiveness of our approach. result 0.99 0.95 0.46 asserted 1.00

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The peculiar congestion patterns in data centers are caused by the bursty and composite nature of traffic, the small bandwidth-delay product, and the tiny switch buffers. It is not practical to modify TCP to adapt to data centers, especially in public clouds where multiple congestion control protocols coexist. In this work, we design a switch-based method to address such congestion issues; our approach does not require any modification to TCP, which enables easy and seamless deployment in public data centers via switch software update. We first present a simple analysis to demonstrate the stability and effectiveness of the scheme, and then we discuss a hardware NetFPGA switch-based prototype. The experimental results from real deployments in a small testbed cluster show the effectiveness of our approach.

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  • We also present, three different real implementations (as a Linux kernel module and as an added feature to OpenvSwitch) and give numerical results from both NS-2 simulation and experiments of real deployment in a small test-bed cluster to show its effectiveness in achieving high throughput overall, a good fairness and short flow completion times for delay-sensitive flows.

    Design and Implementation of Fair Congestion Control for Data Centers Networks · 0.82

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