NDLI: Data center TCP (DCTCP)

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Author	Padhye, Jitendra Greenberg, Albert Prabhakar, Balaji Sridharan, Murari Alizadeh, Mohammad Patel, Parveen Maltz, David A. Sengupta, Sudipta
Abstract	Cloud data centers host diverse applications, mixing workloads that require small predictable latency with others requiring large sustained throughput. In this environment, today's state-of-the-art TCP protocol falls short. We present measurements of a 6000 server production cluster and reveal impairments that lead to high application latencies, rooted in TCP's demands on the limited buffer space available in data center switches. For example, bandwidth hungry "background" flows build up queues at the switches, and thus impact the performance of latency sensitive "foreground" traffic. To address these problems, we propose DCTCP, a TCP-like protocol for data center networks. DCTCP leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in the network to provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts. We evaluate DCTCP at 1 and 10Gbps speeds using commodity, shallow buffered switches. We find DCTCP delivers the same or better throughput than TCP, while using 90% less buffer space. Unlike TCP, DCTCP also provides high burst tolerance and low latency for short flows. In handling workloads derived from operational measurements, we found DCTCP enables the applications to handle 10X the current background traffic, without impacting foreground traffic. Further, a 10X increase in foreground traffic does not cause any timeouts, thus largely eliminating incast problems.
Starting Page	63
Ending Page	74
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01464833
DOI	10.1145/1851275.1851192
Journal	ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCRV)
Volume Number	40
Issue Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1993-07-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Tcp Ecn Data center network
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Software

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