articleDec 6, 2011Closed access

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University of Wisconsin–Madison · Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) · +1 more institution

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Abstract

The effects of data center traffic characteristics on data center traffic engineering is not well understood. In particular, it is unclear how existing traffic engineering techniques perform under various traffic patterns, namely how do the computed routes differ from the optimal routes. Our study reveals that existing traffic engineering techniques perform 15% to 20% worse than the optimal solution. We find that these techniques suffer mainly due to their inability to utilize global knowledge about flow characteristics and make coordinated decision for scheduling flows.

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  • Computer science
  • Traffic engineering
  • Scheduling (production processes)
  • Data center
  • Traffic flow (computer networking)
  • Distributed computing
  • Computer network
  • Mathematical optimization
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