Multipathing in Commodity-based Data Center Networks with IP Tunneling

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  • NAKAMURA Ryo
    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
  • ISHIHARA Tomohiro
    Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
  • SEKIYA Yuji
    Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
  • ESAKI Hiroshi
    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

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  • トンネリング技術を用いた汎用機器によるデータセンターマルチパスの実現
  • トンネリング ギジュツ オ モチイタ ハンヨウ キキ ニ ヨル データセンターマルチパス ノ ジツゲン

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Abstract

Improving availability and throughput is a significant challenge for data center networks. Recent studies have attempted to use a variety of routing and multipathing techniques. However, no method has yet managed to combine availability and throughput improvement with actual deployability, usually because of dedicated hardware requirements. In addition, recent approaches lack availability for topology changes because of requiring pre-configured topology. In this study, we propose a method to construct efficient commodity-based random graph topology network by using an IP tunneling technique. The proposed method only requires minimal modification for software network stack on end hosts. In addition, we designed and implemented a control plane system for proposed method using OSPF. Moreover, the evaluation shows that our proposed method enables throughput improvement of a network and high availability with commodity hardware switches.

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  • Computer Software

    Computer Software 33 (3), 3_29-3_43, 2016

    Japan Society for Software Science and Technology

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