VL2: A scalable and flexible data center network

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 95-104

  Greenberg, Albert ^a   Hamilton, James R ^b   Jain, Navendu ^a   Kandula, Srikanth ^a   Kim, Changhoon ^a   Lahiri, Parantap ^a   Maltz, David A ^a   Patel, Parveen ^a   Sengupta, Sudipta ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AMAZON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS RESOLUTION; CLOUD SERVICES; COST EFFECTIVE; DATA CENTERS; DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; END SYSTEMS; ETHERNET SWITCHES; FAULT DATA; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH CAPACITY; HIGH-SPEED; LOW COSTS; NETWORK CONTROL; NETWORK PATHS; NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES; SERVICE INSTANCES; VALIANT LOAD-BALANCING;

ETHERNET; HARDWARE; LAKES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SERVERS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 79952284379     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1897852.1897877     Document Type: Article

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