A Survey on Congestion Control Mechanisms for Data Center Networks

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey on Congestion Control Mechanisms for Data Center 
Networks"

by

Mr. Wei BAI


Abstract:

In recent years, many data centers have been built around the world to 
provide various services and applications, such as Web search, social 
networking and electronic commerce. Inside data centers, the hundreds of 
thousands of computing and storage servers are interconnected by data 
center networks. As an important infrastructure for computer industry, 
data center network (DCN) is becoming a hot research area, drawing a lot 
of attention from both industry and academia.

In a network, congestion can happen at any time, in any place. Therefore, 
one key component of a network is its congestion control mechanism, which 
specifies how data is transferred from one server to another one, 
especially in the presence of congestion. Due to the unique 
characteristics of data center environments, we need to design customized 
congestion control mechanisms for data center networks, instead of simply 
applying the solutions that are designed for other networks (e.g., 
Internet). In this survey, we first study new challenges and opportunities 
in congestion control brought by data center networks. Then, we review 
some representative congestion control mechanism proposals for data center 
networks. Finally, we discuss some research problems which can be explored 
in the future.


Date:			Monday, 25 April 2016

Time:                  	4:00pm - 6:00pm

Venue:                  Room 3588
                         Lifts 27/28

Committee Members:	Dr. Kai Chen (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Brahim Bensaou (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Jogesh Muppala
 			Dr. Wei Wang


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