Revisiting Flow-Based Load Balancing: Stateless Path Selection in Data Center Networks

Computer Networks · 2013

Abstract

Hash-based load-balancing techniques are widely used to distribute the load over multiple forwarding paths and preserve the packet sequence of transport-level flows. Forcing a long-lived, i.e., elephant, flow to follow a specific path in the network is a desired mechanism in data center networks to avoid crossing hot spots. This limits the formation of bottlenecks and so improves the network use. Unfortunately, current per-flow load-balancing methods do not allow sources to deterministically force a specific path for a flow.

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Gregory Detal

Christoph Paasch

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Simon van der Linden

Pascal Mérindol

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Gildas Avoine

Olivier Bonaventure

Cite (BibTeX)

@article {GCSPGO13, 
	title = {Revisiting Flow-Based Load Balancing: Stateless Path Selection in Data Center Networks},
	journal = {Computer Networks},
	volume = {57},
	number = {5},
	pages = {1204?1216},
	author = {Gregory Detal and Christoph Paasch and Simon van der Linden and Pascal Mérindol and Gildas Avoine and Olivier Bonaventure},
	year = {2013},
	month = {April},
	annote = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2012.12.011},
}