Joint Workload Distribution and Capacity Augmentation in Hybrid Datacenter Networks

• Published in: IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 120 - 133
• Main Authors: Ao, Weng Chon, Huang, Po-Han, Psounis, Konstantinos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.02.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Augmentation; biconvex optimization; Completion time; Data centers; distributed and parallel computing; hybrid datacenter networks; Millimeter waves; On-demand workload distribution; Optimization; Pipeline processing; Pipelining (computers); Racks; Reconfiguration; Resource management; Servers; Task analysis; wireless capacity augmentation; Wireless communication; Workload; Workloads

In hybrid datacenter networks, wired connections are augmented with wireless links to facilitate data transfers between racks. The usage of mmWave/FSO wireless links enables dynamic bandwidth/capacity allocation with extremely small reconfiguration delay. Also, on-demand workload distribution, where...