Host congestion control

S Agarwal, A Krishnamurthy, R Agarwal - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The conventional wisdom in systems and networking communities is that congestion
happens primarily within the network fabric. However, adoption of high-bandwidth access …

RackBlox: A Software-Defined Rack-Scale Storage System with Network-Storage Co-Design

B Reidys, Y Xue, D Li, B Sukhwani, WM Hwu… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined flash (SDF) have been serving as
the backbone of modern data centers. They are managed separately to handle I/O requests …

What's the Story in {EBS} Glory: Evolutions and Lessons in Building Cloud Block Store

W Zhang, E Xu, Q Wang, X Zhang, Y Gu, Z Lu… - … USENIX Conference on …, 2024 - usenix.org
In this paper, we qualitatively and quantitatively discuss the design choices, production
experience, and lessons in building the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) at Alibaba Cloud over …

Deploying user-space {TCP} at cloud scale with {LUNA}

L Zhu, Y Shen, E Xu, B Shi, T Fu, S Ma… - 2023 USENIX Annual …, 2023 - usenix.org
The TCP remains the workhorse protocol for many modern large-scale data centers.
However, the increasingly demanding performance expectations—led by advancement in …

Lightpool: A nvme-of-based high-performance and lightweight storage pool architecture for cloud-native distributed database

J Xu, Y Chen, Y Wang, W Shi, G Fang… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging cloud-native distributed databases rely on local NVMe SSDs to provide high-
performance and highavailable data services to many cloud applications. However, the …

[PDF][PDF] Burstable Cloud Block Storage with Data Processing Units

J Shu, K Qian, E Zhai, X Liu… - 18th USENIX Symposium …, 2024 - qiankun11516.github.io
Cloud block storage (CBS) is a key pillar of public clouds. Today's CBS distinguishes itself
from physical counterparts (eg, SSDs) by offering unique burst capability as well as …

Volley: Accelerating Write-Read Orders in Disaggregated Storage

S Zeng, X Liao, H Guo, Y Lu - Proceedings of the Nineteenth European …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Modern data centers deploy disaggregated storage systems (eg, NVMe over Fabrics, NVMe-
oF) for fine-grained resource elasticity and high resource utilization. A client-side writeback …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding the Host Network

M Vuppalapati, S Agarwal, HN Schuh, B Kasikci… - SIGCOMM, 2024 - cs.cornell.edu
The host network integrates processor, memory, and peripheral interconnects to enable data
transfer within the host. Several recent studies from production datacenters have established …

Ada-WL: An Adaptive Wear-Leveling Aware Data Migration Approach for Flexible SSD Array Scaling in Clusters

Y Gu, L Liu, C Wu, J Li, M Guo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) array has been widely implemented in
real-world large-scale clusters. With the increasing number of users in upper-tier …

Bifrost: Extending RoCE for Long Distance Inter-DC Links

P Yu, F Xue, C Tian, X Wang, Y Chen… - 2023 IEEE 31st …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCEv2) has been widely deployed to data centers (DCs)
for its better compatibility with Ethernet/IP than Infiniband (IB). As cross-DC applications …