NetPilot
Xin Wu, Daniel Turner, Chao-Chih Chen, David A. Maltz, Xiaowei Yang, Lihua Yuan, Ming Zhang · 2012
Driven by the soaring demands for always-on and fast-response online services, modern datacenter networks have recently undergone tremendous growth. These networks often rely on commodity hardware to reach immense scale while keeping capital expenses under check. The downside is that commodity devices are prone to failures, raising a formidable challenge for network operators to promptly handle these failures with minimal disruptions to the hosted services.