A Survey on Data Center Networking and Cloud Computing

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey on Data Center Networking and Cloud Computing"

by

Mr. Ting WANG


Abstract:

Large-scale data centers enables the new era of could computing and
provides the core infrastructure to meeting the computing and storage
requirements for both enterprise information technology needs and
cloud-based services. To support the growing cloud computing needs, the
number of servers in today's data centers are increasing exponentially,
which in turn leads to enormous challenges in designing an efficient and
cost-effective data center networking. With data availability and security
at stake, the issues of data center network are more critical than ever.
Motivated by these challenges and critical issues, many novel and creative
research works have been proposed in recent years. In this survey paper,
we conduct a deep investigation in data center networks and provide a
general overview and analysis of some representative research literature
covering many research areas, such as the data center network
interconnection architectures, the network protocols for data center
networks, the network resource sharing in multi-tenant cloud data centers,
and energy conservation techniques in greening data centers. We start with
an overview on data center networks and together with its requirements
navigating the data center network related designs. Thereafter we review
the aforementioned research topics in the subsequent sections. Finally, we
draw a conclusion and present our own preliminary future research plans.


Date:			Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Time:                   2:30pm - 4:30pm

Venue:                  Room 4483
                         lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Prof. Mounir Hamdi (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Pan Hui (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Kai Chen
 			Dr. Jogesh Muppala


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