Fat-trees: universal networks for hardware-efficient supercomputing
IEEE Transactions on Computers
The landmark hierarchy: a new hierarchy for routing in very large networks
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An algorithm for distributed computation of a spanningtree in an extended LAN
SIGCOMM '85 Proceedings of the ninth symposium on Data communications
SmartBridge: a scalable bridge architecture
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Inside Parallel Computers: Trends in Interconnection Networks
IEEE Computational Science & Engineering
Mace: language support for building distributed systems
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
NetFPGA--An Open Platform for Gigabit-Rate Network Switching and Routing
MSE '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education
Generalized Hypercube and Hyperbus Structures for a Computer Network
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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
Live Debugging of Distributed Systems
CC '09 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Compiler Construction: Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009
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
HyperX: topology, routing, and packaging of efficient large-scale networks
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis
Generic and automatic address configuration for data center networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Life, death, and the critical transition: finding liveness bugs in systems code
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
Brief announcement: a randomized algorithm for label assignment in dynamic networks
DISC'11 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Distributed computing
Brief announcement: a randomized algorithm for label assignment in dynamic networks
DISC'11 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Distributed computing
Aspen trees: balancing data center fault tolerance, scalability and cost
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
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Modern data centers can consist of hundreds of thousands of servers and millions of virtualized end hosts. Managing address assignment while simultaneously enabling scalable communication is a challenge in such an environment. We present ALIAS, an addressing and communication protocol that automates topology discovery and address assignment for the hierarchical topologies that underlie many data center network fabrics. Addresses assigned by ALIAS interoperate with a variety of scalable communication techniques. ALIAS is fully decentralized, scales to large network sizes, and dynamically recovers from arbitrary failures, without requiring modifications to hosts or to commodity switch hardware. We demonstrate through simulation that ALIAS quickly and correctly configures networks that support up to hundreds of thousands of hosts, even in the face of failures and erroneous cabling, and we show that ALIAS is a practical solution for auto-configuration with our NetFPGA testbed implementation.