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Ramanan Vaidyanathan
dblp:149/9288
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2014
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer networks
1 paper |
Datacenter networks · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Datacenter networks › load balancing
congestion-aware load balancing |
0.2 | 1 | 2014 | CONGA: distributed congestion-aware load balancing for datacenters · SIGCOMM 2014 |
Datacenter networks
datacenter transport |
0.2 | 1 | 2014 | CONGA: distributed congestion-aware load balancing for datacenters · SIGCOMM 2014 |
Datacenter networks › load balancing
flowlet switching |
0.2 | 1 | 2014 | CONGA: distributed congestion-aware load balancing for datacenters · SIGCOMM 2014 |
Datacenter networks
load balancing |
0.2 | 1 | 2014 | CONGA: distributed congestion-aware load balancing for datacenters · SIGCOMM 2014 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
flowlet · 0.2distributed congestion feedback · 0.2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | CONGA: distributed congestion-aware load balancing for datacentersabstractWe present the design, implementation, and evaluation of CONGA, a network-based distributed congestion-aware load balancing mechanism for datacenters. CONGA exploits recent trends including the use of regular Clos topologies and overlays for network virtualization. It splits TCP flows into flowlets, estimates real-time congestion on fabric paths, and allocates flowlets to paths based on feedback from remote switches. This enables CONGA to efficiently balance load and seamlessly handle asymmetry, without requiring any TCP modifications. CONGA has been implemented in custom ASICs as part of a new datacenter fabric. In testbed experiments, CONGA has 5x better flow completion times than ECMP even with a single link failure and achieves 2-8x better throughput than MPTCP in Incast scenarios. Further, the Price of Anarchy for CONGA is provably small in Leaf-Spine topologies; hence CONGA is nearly as effective as a centralized scheduler while being able to react to congestion in microseconds. Our main thesis is that datacenter fabric load balancing is best done in the network, and requires global schemes such as CONGA to handle asymmetry. Mohammad Alizadeh, Tom Edsall, Sarang Dharmapurikar, Ramanan Vaidyanathan, Kevin Chu, Andy Fingerhut, Vinh The Lam, Francis Matus, Navindra Yadav, George Varghese |
SIGCOMM | 4 |