Paper Info
Title
EthSpeeder: A High-performance Scalable Fault-Tolerant Ethernet Network Architecture for Data Center
Abstract
Modern data centers accommodate tens or even hundreds of thousands of servers. The sheer volume of servers in these data centers greatly increases the requirements of the supporting network with regards to scalable bisection bandwidth, network latency, fault-tolerance, manageability, and network cost. Traditional Ethernet, which inherits several characteristics from the shared media service model, has a hard time satisfying all of these demands. In this paper, Eth Speeder, a high performance fault-tolerant and scalable layer 2 Ethernet network architecture, is proposed as a possible solution for large-scale data center environments. To evaluate the effectiveness of Eth Speeder, the ES 64, a 64-gigabit-port cut-through switch based on the Eth Speeder protocol, was designed and implemented using FPGA technology. Compared with leading commodity Ethernet switches, the ES 64 with 700 ns switching latency can offer up to 79% improvement in all-to-all bandwidth and up to 70% performance improvement of real applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/NAS.2011.44
NAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
network latency,supporting network,eth speeder,network architecture,data center,eth speeder protocol,network cost,large-scale data center environment,traditional ethernet,ethernet network architecture,high-performance scalable fault-tolerant ethernet,commodity ethernet,topology,cloud computing,satisfiability,field programmable gate arrays,routing,fault tolerant,network topology,local area networks,software fault tolerance,fault tolerant system,fault tolerance,switches,layer 2,ethernet switch,servers,service model
Carrier Ethernet,Ethernet over PDH,Ethernet flow control,Computer science,ATA over Ethernet,Computer network,Network switch,Real-time computing,Ethernet,Metro Ethernet,Synchronous Ethernet,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dawei Wang131.09
Xian-he Sun21987182.64
Nongda Hu381.56
SUN Ning-Hui4126897.37