Data networks (2nd ed.)
A flexible model for resource management in virtual private networks
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
A DoS-limiting network architecture
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Flow rate fairness: dismantling a religion
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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
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
Hedera: dynamic flow scheduling for data center networks
NSDI'10 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
SecondNet: a data center network virtualization architecture with bandwidth guarantees
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
Sharing the data center network
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Dominant resource fairness: fair allocation of multiple resource types
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Gatekeeper: supporting bandwidth guarantees for multi-tenant datacenter networks
WIOV'11 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on I/O virtualization
Towards predictable datacenter networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
Improving datacenter performance and robustness with multipath TCP
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
The only constant is change: incorporating time-varying network reservations in data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
A case for performance-centric network allocation
HotCloud'12 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Cloud Ccomputing
vCRIB: virtualized rule management in the cloud
HotCloud'12 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Cloud Ccomputing
The only constant is change: incorporating time-varying network reservations in data centers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
Virtual machines placement for network isolation in clouds
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium
Scalable rule management for data centers
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
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The network is a crucial resource in cloud computing, but in contrast to other resources such as CPU or memory, the network is currently shared in a best effort manner. However, sharing the network in a datacenter is more challenging than sharing the other resources. The key difficulty is that the network allocation for a VM X depends not only on the VMs running on the same machine with X, but also on the other VMs that X communicates with, as well as on the cross-traffic on each link used by X. In this paper, we first propose a set of desirable properties for allocating the network bandwidth in a datacenter at the VM granularity, and show that there exists a fundamental tradeoff between the ability to share congested links in proportion to payment and the ability to provide minimal bandwidth guarantees to VMs. Second, we show that the existing allocation models violate one or more of these properties, and propose a mechanism that can select different points in the aforementioned tradeoff between payment proportionality and bandwidth guarantees.