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Explicit Path Control in Commodity Data Centers: Design and Applications
Shuihai Hu and Kai Chen, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Haitao Wu, Microsoft; Wei Bai, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Chang Lan, University of California, Berkeley; Hao Wang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Hongze Zhao, Duke University; Chuanxiong Guo, Microsoft
Many data center network (DCN) applications require explicit routing path control over the underlying topologies. This paper introduces XPath, a simple, practical and readily-deployable way to implement explicit path control, using existing commodity switches. At its core, XPath explicitly identifies an end-to-end path with a path ID and leverages a two-step compression algorithm to pre-install all the desired paths into IP TCAM tables of commodity switches. Our evaluation and implementation show that XPath scales to large DCNs and is readilydeployable. Furthermore, on our testbed, we integrate XPath into four applications to showcase its utility.
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author = {Shuihai Hu and Kai Chen and Haitao Wu and Wei Bai and Chang Lan and Hao Wang and Hongze Zhao and Chuanxiong Guo},
title = {Explicit Path Control in Commodity Data Centers: Design and Applications},
booktitle = {12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 15)},
year = {2015},
isbn = {978-1-931971-218},
address = {Oakland, CA},
pages = {15--28},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi15/technical-sessions/presentation/hu},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}
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