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Experimentation Environments for Data Center Routing Protocols: A Comprehensive Review

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  • Leonardo Alberro

    (Instituto de Computación (InCo), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo 11300, Uruguay)

  • Alberto Castro

    (Instituto de Computación (InCo), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo 11300, Uruguay)

  • Eduardo Grampin

    (Instituto de Computación (InCo), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo 11300, Uruguay)

Abstract

The Internet architecture has been undergoing a significant refactoring, where the past preeminence of transit providers has been replaced by content providers, which have a ubiquitous presence throughout the world, seeking to improve the user experience, bringing content closer to its final recipients. This restructuring is materialized in the emergence of Massive Scale Data Centers (MSDC) worldwide, which allows the implementation of the Cloud Computing concept. MSDC usually deploy Fat-Tree topologies, with constant bisection bandwidth among servers and multi-path routing. To take full advantage of such characteristics, specific routing protocols are needed. Multi-path routing also calls for revision of transport protocols and forwarding policies, also affected by specific MSDC applications’ traffic characteristics. Experimenting over these infrastructures is prohibitively expensive, and therefore, scalable and realistic experimentation environments are needed to research and test solutions for MSDC. In this paper, we review several environments, both single-host and distributed, which permit analyzing the pros and cons of different solutions.

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  • Leonardo Alberro & Alberto Castro & Eduardo Grampin, 2022. "Experimentation Environments for Data Center Routing Protocols: A Comprehensive Review," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-22, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:14:y:2022:i:1:p:29-:d:726503
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    1. Leonardo Alberro & Felipe Velázquez & Sara Azpiroz & Eduardo Grampin & Matías Richart, 2022. "Experimenting with Routing Protocols in the Data Center: An ns-3 Simulation Approach," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-28, October.

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