A microscopic view of bursts, buffer contention, and loss in data centers
Ehab Ghabashneh, Yimeng Zhao, Cristian Lumezanu, Neil T. Spring, Srikanth Sundaresan, Sanjay Rao · 2022
Managing data center networks with low loss requires understanding traffic dynamics at short (millisecond) time-scales, especially the burstiness of traffic, and to what extent bursts contend for switch buffer resources. Yet, monitoring traffic over such intervals is a challenge at scale.