Sources of instability in data center multicast

  • Authors:
  • Dmitry Basin;Ken Birman;Idit Keidar;Ymir Vigfusson

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion, Haifa, Israel;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Technion, Haifa, Israel;Haifa University Campus, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

When replicating data in a cloud computing setting, it is common to send updates using reliable dissemination mechanisms such as network overlay trees. We show that as data centers scale up, such multicast schemes manifest various performance and stability problems.