Title
BwE: Flexible, Hierarchical Bandwidth Allocation for WAN Distributed Computing
Abstract
WAN bandwidth remains a constrained resource that is economically infeasible to substantially overprovision. Hence, it is important to allocate capacity according to service priority and based on the incremental value of additional allocation. For example, it may be the highest priority for one service to receive 10Gb/s of bandwidth but upon reaching such an allocation, incremental priority may drop sharply favoring allocation to other services. Motivated by the observation that individual flows with fixed priority may not be the ideal basis for bandwidth allocation, we present the design and implementation of Bandwidth Enforcer (BwE), a global, hierarchical bandwidth allocation infrastructure. BwE supports: i) service-level bandwidth allocation following prioritized bandwidth functions where a service can represent an arbitrary collection of flows, ii)independent allocation and delegation policies according to user-defined hierarchy, all accounting for a global view of bandwidth and failure conditions, iii) multi-path forwarding common in traffic-engineered networks, and iv) a central administrative point to override (perhaps faulty) policy during exceptional conditions. BwE has delivered more service efficient bandwidth utilization and simpler management in production for multiple years.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2829988.2787478
Special Interest Group on Data Communication
Keywords
Field
DocType
bandwidth allocation,max-min fair,software-defined network,wide-area networks
Computer science,Bandwidth allocation,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Dynamic bandwidth allocation,Delegation,Software-defined networking,Hierarchy,Bandwidth utilization,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
45
4
0146-4833
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
28
0.98
18
Authors
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alok Kumar167925.45
Sushant Jain22643165.95
Uday Naik3311.40
Anand Raghuraman4280.98
Nikhil Kasinadhuni5311.40
Enrique Cauich Zermeno6311.40
C. Stephen Gunn7280.98
Jing Ai827611.74
Björn Carlin9280.98
Mihai Amarandei-Stavila10280.98
Mathieu Robin11280.98
Aspi Siganporia12442.10
Stephen Stuart1382034.67
Amin Vahdat1410369842.39