Incast in Data Center Networks
Keywords:
TCP, MPTCP, data center network, synchronous read, goodput, IncastAbstract
Several data center applications follow many-to-one communication pattern at the access layer of data center network (DCN), in which numerous workers (servers) transfers data towards same aggregator (client) through a common ToR switch at the same time. Due to this, goodput collapses and it is termed as incast problem in DCN. There are two types of incast problems. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) incast problem and Multipath TCP (MPTCP) incast problem. In this paper, existing solutions to TCP incast and MPTCP incast are reviewed comprehensively.
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