Tenant-level network performance isolation in Flowtune

Performance isolation is a major concern for multi-tenant datacenters. Many service level agreements include a specification on the allotment of resources. For tenants, these resource guarantees are critical to the availability and efficiency of their services. While CPU, disk, and memory isolation are well-understood, network performance isolation is less straightforward. In this thesis, I investigate methods for enforcing bandwidth fairness guarantees for logical networks in a datacenter and implement network performance isolation in Flowtune. Flowtune is a datacenter network architecture which introduces a centralized arbiter to enforce congestion control at the flowlet level. Flowtune achieves rapid convergence to a desired allocation of network resources in addition to reducing tail latencies in various settings. However, Flowtune currently does not provide tenant-level network performance isolation.

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

2016

Author dc:creator

• Chang, Brendan (Brendan S.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jonathan Perry and Hari Balakrishnan.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112821

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/112821