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ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW
Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 15-26Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/2534169.2486012
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Inter-DC WAN; software-defined networking
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We present SWAN, a system that boosts the utilization of inter-data center networks by centrally controlling when and how much traffic each service sends and frequently reconfiguring the network's data plane to match current traffic demand. But done simplistically, these reconfigurations can also cause severe, transient congestion because different switches may apply updates at different times. We develop a novel technique that leverages a small amount of scratch capacity on links to apply updates in a provably congestion-free manner, without making any assumptions about the order and timing of updates at individual switches. Further, to scale to large networks in the face of limited forwarding table capacity, SWAN greedily selects a small set of entries that can best satisfy current demand. It updates this set without disrupting traffic by leveraging a small amount of scratch capacity in forwarding tables. Experiments using a testbed prototype and data-driven simulations of two production networks show that SWAN carries 60% more traffic than the current practice.
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