Analyzing and Enhancing Dynamic Threshold Policy of Data Center Switches

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 28; no. 9; pp. 2454 - 2470
• Main Authors: Shan, Danfeng, Jiang, Wanchun, Ren, Fengyuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Bandwidth; buffer management; Buffers; Bursting; Communications traffic; Constraint modelling; data center network; Data centers; Distributed databases; dynamic threshold; Law enforcement; Memory management; micro-burst; Performance degradation; Ports; Ports (Computers); Servers; Shared memory; Switches; System-on-chip

Today's data center switches usually employ on-chip shared memory; buffer management policy in them is essential to ensure fair sharing of memory among all ports. Among various polices, Dynamic Threshold (DT) policy is widely used by switch vendors. Meanwhile, in data centers, distributed appli...