Paper Info
Title
A reliability analysis of datacenter topologies.
Abstract
The network infrastructure plays an important role for datacenter applications. Therefore, datacenter network architectures are designed with three main goals: bandwidth, latency and reliability. This work focuses on the last goal and provides a comparative analysis of the topologies of prevalent datacenter architectures. Those architectures use a network based only on switches or a hybrid scheme of servers and switches to perform packet forwarding. We analyze failures of the main networking elements (link, server, and switch) to evaluate the tradeoffs of the different datacenter topologies. Considering only the network topology, our analysis provides a baseline study to the choice or design of a datacenter network with regard to reliability. Our results show that, as the number of failures increases, the considered hybrid topologies can substantially increase the path length, whereas servers on the switch-only topology tend to disconnect more quickly from the main network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503391
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer centres,fault tolerant computing,reliability,data center application,data center network architecture,data center topology,link element,network infrastructure,packet forwarding,path length,reliability analysis,server element,switch element,switch-only topology
Path length,Computer science,Latency (engineering),Server,Network architecture,Computer network,Real-time computing,Network topology,Bandwidth (signal processing),Packet forwarding,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2334-0983
10
0.83
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rodrigo S. Couto19810.71
Miguel Elias M. Campista228129.97
Luís Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa327733.90