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Catch the Whole Lot in an Action: Rapid Precise Packet Loss Notification in Data Center
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You are not authorized to post comments.Peng Cheng, Fengyuan Ren, Ran Shu, and Chuang Lin, Tsinghua University
An increasing number of TCP performance issues including TCP Incast, TCP Outcast, and long query completion times are common in large-scale data centers. We demonstrate that the root cause of these problems is that existing techniques are unable to maintain self-clocking or to achieve accurate and rapid packet loss notification. We present cutting payload (CP), a mechanism that simply drops a packet’s payload at an overloaded switch, and a SACK-like precise ACK (PACK) mechanism to accurately inform senders about lost packets. Experiments demonstrate that CP successfully addresses the root cause of TCP performance issues. Furthermore, CP works well with other TCP variants used in data center networks.
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author = {Peng Cheng and Fengyuan Ren and Ran Shu and Chuang Lin},
title = {Catch the Whole Lot in an Action: Rapid Precise Packet Loss Notification in Data Center},
booktitle = {11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 14)},
year = {2014},
isbn = {978-1-931971-09-6},
address = {Seattle, WA},
pages = {17--28},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/cheng},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}
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