Proceedings of the 14th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Floodless in seattle: a scalable ethernet architecture for large enterprises
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
A scalable, commodity data center network architecture
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Dcell: a scalable and fault-tolerant network structure for data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
The cost of a cloud: research problems in data center networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A Power Benchmarking Framework for Network Devices
NETWORKING '09 Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference
PortLand: a scalable fault-tolerant layer 2 data center network fabric
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
BCube: a high performance, server-centric network architecture for modular data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
Understanding data center traffic characteristics
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Research on enterprise networking
RouteBricks: exploiting parallelism to scale software routers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium on Operating systems principles
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
The nature of data center traffic: measurements & analysis
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Symbiotic routing in future data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
PacketShader: a GPU-accelerated software router
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Building extensible networks with rule-based forwarding
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
RouteBricks: enabling general purpose network infrastructure
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
USENIXATC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX conference on USENIX annual technical conference
Jellyfish: networking data centers, randomly
HotCloud'11 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing
HotCloud'11 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing
Jellyfish: networking data centers randomly
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Incrementally upgradable data center architecture using hyperbolic tessellations
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Patch panels in the sky: a case for free-space optics in data centers
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
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There is a growing body of research exploring new network architectures for the data center. These proposals all seek to improve the scalability and cost-effectiveness of current data center networks, but adopt very different approaches to doing so. For example, some proposals build networks entirely out of switches while others do so using a combination of switches and servers. How do these different network architectures compare? For that matter, by what metrics should we even begin to compare these architectures? Understanding the tradeoffs between different approaches is important both for operators making deployment decisions and to guide future research. In this paper, we take a first step toward understanding the tradeoffs between different data center network architectures. We use high-level models of different classes of data center networks and compare them on cost using both current and predicted trends in cost and power consumption.