Essential traffic parameters for shared memory switch performance

Patrick Eugster, Alex Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Sergey Nikolenko, Alexander Sirotkin

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Abstract

Cloud applications bring new challenges to the design of network elements, in particular accommodating for the burstiness of traffic workloads. Shared memory switches represent the best candidate architecture to exploit buffer capacity; we analyze the performance of this architecture. Our goal is to explore the impact of additional traffic characteristics such as varying processing requirements and packet values on objective functions. The outcome of this work is a better understanding of the relevant parameters for buffer management to achieve better performance in dynamic environments of data centers. We consider a model that captures more of the properties of the target architecture than previous work and consider several scheduling and buffer management algorithms that are specifically designed to optimize its performance. In particular, we provide analytic guarantees for the throughput performance of our algorithms that are independent from specific distributions of packet arrivals. We furthermore report on a comprehensive simulation study which validates our analytic results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStructural Information and Communication Complexity - 22nd International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2015, Post-Proceedings
EditorsChristian Scheideler
Pages61-75
Number of pages15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2015 - Montserrat, Spain
Duration: 14 Jul 201516 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9439
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22nd International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2015
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMontserrat
Period14/07/1516/07/15

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