Title
Catching the Microburst Culprits with Snappy.
Abstract
Short-lived traffic surges, known as microbursts, can cause periods of unexpectedly high packet delay and loss on a link. Today, preventing microbursts requires deploying switches with larger packet buffers (incurring higher cost) or running the network at low utilization (sacrificing efficiency). Instead, we argue that switches should detect microbursts as they form, and take corrective action before the situation gets worse. This requires an efficient way for switches to identify the particular flows responsible for a microburst, and handle them automatically (e.g., by pacing, marking, or rerouting the packets). However, collecting fine-grained statistics about queue occupancy in real time is challenging, even with emerging programmable data planes. We present Snappy, which identifies the flows responsible for a microburst in real time. Snappy maintains multiple snapshots of the occupants of the queue over time, where each snapshot is a compact data structure that makes eicient use of data-plane memory. As each new packet arrives, Snappy updates one snapshot and also estimates the fraction of the queue occupied by the associated flow. Our simulations with data-center packet traces show that Snappy can target the flows responsible for microbursts at the sub-millisecond level.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
SelfDN@SIGCOMM
Data structure,Computer science,Network packet,Queue,Computer network,Microburst,Snapshot (computer storage)
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-5914-6
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoqi Chen1336.26
Shir Landau Feibish2375.78
Yaron Koral360.77
Jennifer Rexford4143781195.34
Ori Rottenstreich531829.90