Scalable and cost-effective interconnection of data-center servers using dual server ports

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 102-114

  Li, Dan ^a   Guo, Chuanxiong ^b   Wu, Haitao ^b   Tan, Kun ^b   Zhang, Yongguang ^b   Lu, Songwu ^c   Wu, Jianping ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer networks; computers and information processing; Internet

Indexed keywords

BISECTION WIDTH; CURRENT PRACTICES; DATA CENTERS; EQUIPMENT COSTS; ETHERNET PORTS; INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE; LINK UTILIZATION; LOW DIAMETERS; NETWORK CAPACITY; NETWORK CONNECTION; NETWORK SWITCHES; NETWORKING STRUCTURE; ON DYNAMICS; ROUTING MECHANISM; SERVER MACHINES; SERVER NODES;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA PROCESSING; INTERNET;

SERVERS;

EID: 79951947098     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2053718     Document Type: Article

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