PVTCP: Towards practical and effective congestion control in virtualized datacenters

• Published in: 2013 21st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Luwei Cheng, Cho-Li Wang, Lau, Francis C. M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2013
• Subjects: Delays; Receivers; Scheduling; Switches; Virtual machine monitors; Virtualization

While modern datacenters are increasingly adopting virtual machines (VMs) to provide elastic cloud services, they still rely on traditional TCP for congestion control. In virtualized datacenters, TCP endpoints are separated by a virtualization layer and subject to the intervention of the hypervisor&...