A Survey on Traffic Scheduling in Data Center Networks

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey on Traffic Scheduling in Data Center Networks"

by

Mr. Hong ZHANG


Abstract:

Traffic scheduling has embraced new challenges and opportunities with the 
emergence of large scale datacenters (DCs) and applications running on them. On 
one hand, many datacenter applications impose unique and stringent requirements 
on the transport fabric, making network scheduling a key factor for application 
performance optimization. On the other hand, the unique characteristics of data 
center networks motivate novel network scheduling mechanisms different from the 
traditional Internet-based solutions. As a result, recent years have witnessed 
unremitting research efforts on traffic scheduling in datacenters, with a 
common goal of more efficiently utilizing the limited network resources and 
providing greater speed up for datacenter applications.

This survey provides a snapshot on the current state of the art of traffic 
scheduling techniques proposed for DCN. The focus centers around the following 
topics: load balancing traffic for high goodput, prioritizing flows for low 
latency, and coordinating flows for application speed up. Particularly, we 
intend to explore the insights behind these schemes hoping to spark new 
interests and developments.


Date:			Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Time:                  	1:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:                  Room 5506
                         Lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Dr. Kai Chen (Supervisor)
 			Prof. Gary Chan (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Yangqiu Song
 			Dr. Wei Wang


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