DCRoute: Speeding up Inter-Datacenter Traffic Allocation while Guaranteeing Deadlines

Mohammad Noormohammadpour (1) , Cauligi S Raghavendra (1) , Sriram Rao (2)

1 USC - University of Southern California
2 Microsoft Corporation [Redmond]

Datacenters provide the infrastructure for cloud computing services used by millions of users every day. Many such services are distributed over multiple datacenters at geographically distant locations possibly in different continents. These datacenters are then connected through high-speed WAN links over private or public networks. To perform data backups or data synchronization operations, many transfers take place over these networks that have to be completed before a deadline in order to provide necessary service guarantees to end users. Upon arrival of a transfer request, we would like the system to be able to decide whether such a request can be guaranteed successful delivery. If yes, it should provide us with transmission schedule in the shortest time possible. In addition, we would like to avoid packet reordering at the destination as it affects TCP performance. Previous work in this area either cannot guarantee that admitted transfers actually finish before the specified deadlines or use techniques that can result in packet reordering. In this paper, we propose DCRoute, a fast and efficient routing and traffic allocation technique that guarantees transfer completion before deadlines for admitted requests. It assigns each transfer a single path to avoid packet reordering. Through simulations, we show that DCRoute is at least 200 times faster than other traffic allocation techniques based on linear programming (LP) while admitting almost the same amount of traffic to the system.

Mots clés: Datacenter; Routing; Traffic Allocation; Traffic Scheduling; Deadlines; Wide Area Networks; Inter-datacenter

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Performance et fiabilité [cs.PF]; Systèmes et contrôle [cs.SY]

Mohammad Noormohammadpour, Cauligi S Raghavendra, Sriram Rao. DCRoute: Speeding up Inter-Datacenter Traffic Allocation while Guaranteeing Deadlines. 2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Dec 2016, Hyderabad, India. ⟨10.1109/HiPC.2016.019⟩. ⟨hal-01819059⟩