Flexplane : a programmable data plane for resource management in datacenters

Network resource management schemes can significantly improve the performance of datacenter applications. However, it is difficult to experiment with and evaluate these schemes today because they require modifications to hardware routers. To address this we introduce Flexplane, a programmable network data plane for datacenters. Flexplane enables users to express their schemes in a high-level language (C++) and then run real datacenter applications over them at hardware rates. We demonstrate that Flexplane can accurately reproduce the behavior of schemes already supported in hardware (e.g. RED, DCTCP) and can be used to experiment with new schemes not yet supported in hardware, such as HULL. We also show that Flexplane is scalable and has the potential to support large networks.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Ousterhout, Amy (Amy Elizabeth)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hari Balakrishnan.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101584

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/101584