Practical DCB for improved data center networks

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1824-1832

  Stephens, Brent ^a   Cox, Alan L ^a   Singla, Ankit ^b   Carter, John ^c   Dixon, Colin ^c   Felter, Wesley ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UIUC   (United States)

^c IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

ARBITRARY NETWORKS; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; DEADLOCK-FREE ROUTING; HARDWARE TESTBEDS; HEAD OF LINE BLOCKING; LOSSLESS NETWORKS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; STORAGE AREA NETWORKINGS;

HARDWARE;

EID: 84904439237     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2014.6848121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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