Survey on Traffic Management in Data Center Network: From Link Layer to Application Layer

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 9; pp. 38427 - 38456
• Main Authors: Li, Weihe, Liu, Jingling, Wang, Shiqi, Zhang, Tao, Zou, Shaojun, Hu, Jinbin, Jiang, Wanchun, Huang, Jiawei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Computer centers; congestion control; Data center network; Data centers; Ethernet; load balancing; Multilayers; Network latency; Network topology; Performance degradation; RDMA; Switches; Task analysis; Taxonomy; Throughput; Topology; Traffic management; Traffic surveys

Due to the explosive growth of all kinds of Internet services, data centers have become an irreplaceable and vital infrastructure to support this soaring trend. Compared with traditional networks, data center networks (DCNs) have unique features, such as high bandwidth, low latency, many-to-one comm...