Of the major factors affecting end-to-end service availability, network component failure is perhaps the least well understood. How often do failures occur, how long do they last,...
Daniel Turner, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, ...
The basic building block of ever larger data centers has shifted from a rack to a modular container with hundreds or even thousands of servers. Delivering scalable bandwidth among...
Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Sivasankar Radha...
BGP routing policies are mainly used by network operators to enforce business relationships between Autonomous Systems (AS), and to prefer some routes over others. In this paper, ...
Laurent Vanbever, Bruno Quoitin, Olivier Bonaventu...
This paper analyzes the causes of packet loss in a 38-node urban multi-hop 802.11b network. The patterns and causes of loss are important in the design of routing and errorcorrect...
Daniel Aguayo, John C. Bicket, Sanjit Biswas, Glen...
ABSTRACT: Switch chips are building blocks for computer and communication systems. Switches need internal buffering, because of output contention; shared buffering is known to perf...