Survey on routing in data centers: Insights and future directions

Kai Chen; Chengchen Hu; Xin Zhang; Kai Zheng; Yan Chen; Athanasios V. Vasilakos

doi:10.1109/MNET.2011.5958002

Survey on routing in data centers: Insights and future directions

Kai Chen^*, Chengchen Hu, Xin Zhang, Kai Zheng, Yan Chen, Athanasios V. Vasilakos

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Abstract

Recently, a series of data center network architectures have been proposed. The goal of these works is to interconnect a large number of servers with significant bandwidth requirements. Coupled with these new DCN structures, routing protocols play an important role in exploring the network capacities that can be potentially delivered by the topologies. This article conducts a survey on the current state of the art of DCN routing techniques. The article focuses on the insights behind these routing schemes and also points out the open research issues hoping to spark new interests and developments in this field.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5958002
Pages (from-to)	6-10
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Network
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2011.5958002
State	Published - Jul 2011

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This work was supported in part by NSF CNS 0917233, and NSFC 60903182 and 60921003.

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Information Systems
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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