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Circuit Switching Under the Radar with REACToR

Authors: 

He Liu, Feng Lu, Alex Forencich, Rishi Kapoor, Malveeka Tewari, Geoffrey M. Voelker, George Papen, Alex C. Snoeren, and George Porter, University of California, San Diego

Abstract: 

The potential advantages of optics at high link speeds have led to significant interest in deploying optical switching technology in data-center networks. Initial efforts have focused on hybrid approaches that rely on millisecond-scale circuit switching in the core of the network, while maintaining the flexibility of electrical packet switching at the edge. Recent demonstrations of microsecond-scale optical circuit switches motivate considering circuit switching for more dynamic traffic such as that generated from a top-of-rack (ToR) switch. Based on these technology trends, we propose a prototype hybrid ToR, called REACToR, which utilizes a combination of packet switching and circuit switching to appear to end-hosts as a packet-switched ToR. In this paper, we describe a prototype REACToR control plane which synchronizes end host transmissions with end-to-end circuit assignments. This control plane can react to rapid, bursty changes in the traffic from end hosts on a time scale of 100s of microseconds, several orders of magnitude faster than previous hybrid approaches. Using the experimental data from a system of eight end hosts, we calibrate a hybrid network simulator and use this simulator to predict the performance of larger-scale hybrid networks.

He Liu, University of California, San Diego

Feng Lu, University of California, San Diego

Alex Forencich, University of California, San Diego

Rishi Kapoor, University of California, San Diego

Malveeka Tewari, University of California, San Diego

Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego

George Papen, University of California, San Diego

Alex C. Snoeren, University of California, San Diego

George Porter, University of California, San Diego

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {179749,
author = {He Liu and Feng Lu and Alex Forencich and Rishi Kapoor and Malveeka Tewari and Geoffrey M. Voelker and George Papen and Alex C. Snoeren and George Porter},
title = {Circuit Switching Under the Radar with {REACToR}},
booktitle = {11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 14)},
year = {2014},
isbn = {978-1-931971-09-6},
address = {Seattle, WA},
pages = {1--15},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/liu_he},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr,
}
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