Paper Info
Title
FiConn: Using Backup Port for Server Interconnection in Data Centers
Abstract
The goal of data center networking is to interconnect a large number of server machines with low equipment cost, high and balanced network capacity, and robustness to link/server faults. It is well understood that, the current practice where servers are connected by a tree hierarchy of network switches cannot meet these requirements (Fares et al., 2008 and Guo et al., 2008). In this paper, we explore a new server-interconnection structure. We observe that the commodity server machines used in today's data centers usually come with two built-in Ethernet ports, one for network connection and the other left for backup purpose. We believe that, if both ports are actively used in network connections, we can build a low-cost interconnection structure without the expensive higher-level large switches. Our new network design, called FiConn, utilizes both ports and only the low-end commodity switches to form a scalable and highly effective structure. Although the server node degree is only two in this structure, we have proven that FiConn is highly scalable to encompass hundreds of thousands of servers with low diameter and high bisection width. The routing mechanism in FiConn balances different levels of links. We have further developed a low-overhead traffic-aware routing mechanism to improve effective link utilization based on dynamic traffic state. Simulation results have demonstrated that the routing mechanisms indeed achieve high networking throughput.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062153
INFOCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
telecommunication switching,network capacity,ethernet,network switch,commodity server machine,traffic-aware routing,commodity switch,network servers,server faults,link utilization,ficonn,backup port,server interconnection,data center networking,network connection,dynamic traffic state,networking throughput,telecommunication traffic,telecommunication network routing,local area networks,link faults,network design,servers,bandwidth,routing,switches,throughput,robustness,data center
Server farm,Data center network architectures,Network planning and design,Computer science,Server,Node (networking),Computer network,Network switch,Local area network,Backup,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0743-166X E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-3513-5
978-1-4244-3513-5
110
PageRank 
References 
Authors
4.03
11
6
Search Limit
100110
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dan Li1144188.77
Chuanxiong Guo22582170.88
Haitao Wu32394185.35
Kun Tan4135098.64
Yongguang Zhang53461248.65
Songwu Lu66137504.90