WCSE 2015
ISBN: 978-981-09-5471-0 DOI: 10.18178/wcse.2015.04.118

A Flexible Testbed for Datacenter Network Congestion Control Protocol

Xin Yue, Xing Li

Abstract— With the prevalence of big data and cloud computing, both the network architecture and traffic pattern of the datacenter network changed. This brings challenge to the development of congestion control protocol for the datacenter network, as the traditional tools created for the wide area network and enterprise network don't meet the requirements of datacenter network well. In this paper, we will present our design and implementation of a flexible in-lab testbed for the development of datacenter network congestion control protocol. By using it to evaluate Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Data Center TCP (DCTCP), we demonstrate its flexibility and capability.

Index Terms— testbed, congestion control protocol, datacenter network.

Xin Yue, Xing Li
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, CHINA

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Cite: Xin Yue, Xing Li, "A Flexible Testbed for Datacenter Network Congestion Control Protocol," 2015 The 5th International Workshop on Computer Science and Engineering-Information Processing and Control Engineering (WCSE 2015-IPCE), pp. 741-747, Moscow, Russia, April 15-17, 2015.