Planck: Millisecond-scale monitoring and control for commodity networks

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 407-418

  Rasley, Jeff ^a   Stephens, Brent ^b   Dixon, Colin ^d   Rozner, Eric ^c   Felter, Wes ^c   Agarwal, Kanak ^c   Carter, John ^c   Fonseca, Rodrigo ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IBM AUSTIN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Brocade   (United States)

Author keywords

Networking measurement; Software defined networking; Traffic engineering

Indexed keywords

FIRMWARE;

AGGREGATE THROUGHPUT; COMMODITY SWITCHES; MONITORING AND CONTROL; MONITORING MECHANISMS; NETWORK INFORMATION; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; TRANSIENT PROBLEMS;

SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

EID: 84924376535     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2619239.2626310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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