Several powerful forces are gathering to make fundamental and irrevocable changes to the century-old grid. The nextgeneration grid, often called the `smart grid,' will featur...
Cloud data centers host diverse applications, mixing workloads that require small predictable latency with others requiring large sustained throughput. In this environment, today&...
Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert G. Greenberg, David A. M...
We present SwitchBlade, a platform for rapidly deploying custom protocols on programmable hardware. SwitchBlade uses a pipeline-based design that allows individual hardware module...
Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Murtaza Motiwala, Muhammad M...
TCP flows start with an initial congestion window of at most four segments or approximately 4KB of data. Because most Web transactions are short-lived, the initial congestion wind...
This whitepaper proposes OpenFlow: a way for researchers to run experimental protocols in the networks they use every day. OpenFlow is based on an Ethernet switch, with an interna...
Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan, Gur...