Improving fairness of quantized congestion notification for data center ethernet networks

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 20-25

  Hayashi, Yuki ^a   Itsumi, Hayato ^a   Yamamoto, Miki ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congestion Control; Data Center; LAN SAN Convergence; QCN

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTERS; ETHERNET NETWORKS; ETHERNET TECHNOLOGY; FRAME LOSS; HOT SPOT; MULTIHOP; QCN; RATE INCREASE; STORAGE AREA NETWORKS; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE;

ETHERNET; ETHERS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052392047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW.2011.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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