Towards predictable datacenter networks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference, SIGCOMM'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 242-253

  Ballani, Hitesh ^a   Costa, Paolo ^a,b   Karagiannis, Thomas ^a   Rowstron, Ant ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocation; Bandwidth; Datacenter; Virtual network

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; DATA CENTERS; DATACENTER; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MULTI TENANTS; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; PERFORMANCE VARIABILITY; PRICING MODELS; VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

ABSTRACTING; BANDWIDTH; COMMERCE; COSTS; ECONOMICS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80053157623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018436.2018465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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