Understanding network failures in data centers: Measurement, analysis, and implications

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference, SIGCOMM'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 350-361

  Gill, Phillipa ^a   Jain, Navendu ^b   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data centers; Network reliability

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTERS; HIGH RELIABILITY; KEEP-ALIVE; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; LOAD BALANCER; MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES; NETWORK FAILURE; NETWORK OPERATOR; NETWORK REDUNDANCY; NETWORK RELIABILITY; NETWORK TRAFFIC;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

REDUNDANCY;

EID: 80053165806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018436.2018477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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