Alok Kumar

Alok Kumar

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    BwE: Flexible, Hierarchical Bandwidth Allocation for WAN Distributed Computing
    Björn Carlin
    C. Stephen Gunn
    Enrique Cauich Zermeno
    Jing Ai
    Mathieu Robin
    Nikhil Kasinadhuni
    Sushant Jain
    ACM SIGCOMM 2015 (to appear)
    Preview abstract WAN bandwidth remains a constrained resource that is economically infeasible to substantially overprovision. Hence,it is important to allocate capacity according to service priority and based on the incremental value of additional allocation in particular bandwidth regions. For example, it may be highest priority for one service to receive 10Gb/s of bandwidth but upon reaching such an allocation, incremental priority may drop sharply favoring allocation to other services. Motivated by the observation that individual flows with fixed priority may not be the ideal basis for bandwidth allocation, we present the design and implementation of Bandwidth Enforcer (BwE), a global, hierarchical bandwidth allocation infrastructure. BwE supports: i) service-level bandwidth allocation following prioritized bandwidth functions where a service can represent an arbitrary collection of ows, ii) independent allocation and delegation policies according to user-defined hierarchy, all accounting for a global view of bandwidth and failure conditions, iii) multi-path forwarding common in traffic-engineered networks, and iv) a central administrative point to override (perhaps faulty) policy during exceptional conditions. BwE has delivered more service-efficient bandwidth utilization and simpler management in production for multiple years. View details
    BwE: Flexible, Hierarchical Bandwidth Allocation for WAN Distributed Computing
    Sushant Jain
    Nikhil Kasinadhuni
    Enrique Cauich Zermeno
    C. Stephen Gunn
    Jing Ai
    Björn Carlin
    Mathieu Robin
    Amin Vahdat
    Sigcomm '15, Google Inc (2015)
    Preview abstract WAN bandwidth remains a constrained resource that is economically infeasible to substantially overprovision. Hence, it is important to allocate capacity according to service priority and based on the incremental value of additional allocation. For example, it may be the highest priority for one service to receive 10Gb/s of bandwidth but upon reaching such an allocation, incremental priority may drop sharply favoring allocation to other services. Motivated by the observation that individual flows with fixed priority may not be the ideal basis for bandwidth allocation, we present the design and implementation of Bandwidth Enforcer (BwE), a global, hierarchical bandwidth allocation infrastructure. BwE supports: i) service-level bandwidth allocation following prioritized bandwidth functions where a service can represent an arbitrary collection of flows, ii) independent allocation and delegation policies according to user-defined hierarchy, all accounting for a global view of bandwidth and failure conditions, iii) multi-path forwarding common in traffic-engineered networks, and iv) a central administrative point to override (perhaps faulty) policy during exceptional conditions. BwE has delivered more service-efficient bandwidth utilization and simpler management in production for multiple years. View details
    B4: Experience with a Globally Deployed Software Defined WAN
    Sushant Jain
    Joon Ong
    Subbaiah Venkata
    Jim Wanderer
    Junlan Zhou
    Min Zhu
    Amin Vahdat
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Hong Kong, China (2013)
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