articleACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAug 17, 2008Closed access

Dcell

Microsoft Research Asia (China) · Tsinghua University · +1 more institution

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Abstract

A fundamental challenge in data center networking is how to efficiently interconnect an exponentially increasing number of servers. This paper presents DCell, a novel network structure that has many desirable features for data center networking. DCell is a recursively defined structure, in which a high-level DCell is constructed from many low-level DCells and DCells at the same level are fully connected with one another. DCell scales doubly exponentially as the node degree increases. DCell is fault tolerant since it does not have single point of failure and its distributed fault-tolerant routing protocol performs near shortest-path routing even in the presence of severe link or node failures. DCell also…

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Keywords
  • Computer science
  • Distributed computing
  • Node (physics)
  • Fault tolerance
  • Computer network
  • Routing (electronic design automation)
  • Interconnection
  • Data center
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