Title
Explicit Path Control in Commodity Data Centers: Design and Applications.
Abstract
Many data center network DCN applications require explicit routing path control over the underlying topologies. In this paper, we present XPath, a simple, practical and readily-deployable way to implement explicit path control, using existing commodity switches. At its core, XPath explicitly identifies an end-to-end path with a path ID and leverages a two-step compression algorithm to pre-install all the desired paths into IP TCAM tables of commodity switches. Our evaluation and implementation show that XPath scales to large DCNs and is readily-deployable. Furthermore, on our testbed, we integrate XPath into four applications to showcase its utility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TNET.2015.2482988
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Routing,IP networks,Bandwidth,Ports (Computers),Topology,Servers,Network topology
Conference
24
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1063-6692
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
30
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuihai Hu1475.49
Kai Chen274459.02
Haitao Wu32394185.35
Wei Bai 0001419013.46
Chang Lan52058.74
Hao Wang619332.36
Hongze Zhao730.40
Chuanxiong Guo82582170.88