On application-level approaches to avoiding TCP throughput collapse in cluster-based storage systems
Elie Krevat, Vijay Vasudevan, Amar Phanishayee, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Srinivasan Seshan · 2007
TCP Incast plagues scalable cluster-based storage built atop standard TCP/IP-over-Ethernet, often resulting in much lower client read bandwidth than can be provided by the available network links. This paper reviews the Incast problem and discusses potential application-level approaches to avoiding it.