Modern data centers are massive, and support a range of distributed applications across potentially hundreds of server racks. As their utilization and bandwidth needs continue to ...
e network, similar to CPU and memory, is a critical and shared resource in the cloud. However, unlike other resources, it is neither shared proportionally to payment, nor do cl...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental component of today’s Internet. Recent years have seen radical changes to DNS with increases in usage of remote DNS and public DNS s...
The Route Shepherd tool demonstrates applications of choosing between routing protocol configurations on the basis of rigorouslysupported theory. Splitting the configuration spa...
Alexander J. T. Gurney, Xianglong Han, Yang Li, Bo...
Unlike their cellular counterparts, Wi-Fi networks do not have the luxury of a dedicated control plane that is decoupled from the data plane. Consequently, Wi-Fi struggles to prov...
Asaf Cidon, Kanthi Nagaraj, Sachin Katti, Pramod V...
We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...
The largest IXPs carry on a daily basis traffic volumes in the petabyte range, similar to what some of the largest global ISPs reportedly handle. This little-known fact is due to...
Bernhard Ager, Nikolaos Chatzis, Anja Feldmann, Na...
eXpressive Internet Architecture (XIA) [1] is an architecture that natively supports multiple communication types and allows networks to evolve their abstractions and functionalit...
Robert Grandl, Dongsu Han, Suk-Bok Lee, Hyeontaek ...
Today’s data centers face extreme challenges in providing low latency. However, fair sharing, a principle commonly adopted in current congestion control protocols, is far from o...