Rethinking the data center networking: Architecture, network protocols, and resource sharing

IEEE Access

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1481-1496

  Wang, Ting ^a   Su, Zhiyang ^a   Xia, Yu ^a   Hamdi, Mounir ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

architecture; Data center networks; network protocols; resource sharing

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLOUD COMPUTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIGITAL STORAGE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

CLOUD DATA CENTERS; CORE INFRASTRUCTURE; DATA AVAILABILITY; DATA CENTER NETWORKINGS; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; RESOURCE SHARING; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84923318726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2383439     Document Type: Article

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