Absorbing micro-burst traffic by enhancing dynamic threshold policy of data center switches

• Published in: Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies pp. 118 - 126
• Main Authors: Danfeng Shan, Wanchun Jiang, Fengyuan Ren
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.04.2015
• Subjects: Computers; Conferences; dynamic threshold; Memory management; micro-burst; Nickel; packet dropping; Ports (Computers); Queueing analysis; shared memory; Steady-state; switch buffer management

In data center networks, micro-burst is a common traffic pattern and the packet dropping caused by it usually leads to serious performance degradation. Meanwhile, most of the current commodity switches employ on-chip shared memory, and the buffer management policies of them ensure fair sharing of me...