Designing Scalable Networks for Future Large Datacenters

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dc.contributor.advisorCox, Alan L.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRixner, Scotten_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberNg, T. S. Eugeneen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCarter, Johnen_US
dc.creatorStephens, Brenten_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-06T04:44:07Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-06T04:44:10Zen_US
dc.date.available2012-09-06T04:44:07Zen_US
dc.date.available2012-09-06T04:44:10Zen_US
dc.date.created2012-05en_US
dc.date.issued2012-09-05en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2012en_US
dc.date.updated2012-09-06T04:44:10Zen_US
dc.description.abstractModern datacenters require a network with high cross-section bandwidth, fine-grained security, support for virtualization, and simple management that can scale to hundreds of thousands of hosts at low cost. This thesis first presents the firmware for Rain Man, a novel datacenter network architecture that meets these requirements, and then performs a general scalability study of the design space. The firmware for Rain Man, a scalable Software-Defined Networking architecture, employs novel algorithms and uses previously unused forwarding hardware. This allows Rain Man to scale at high performance to networks of forty thousand hosts on arbitrary network topologies. In the general scalability study of the design space of SDN architectures, this thesis identifies three different architectural dimensions common among the networks: source versus hop-by-hop routing, the granularity at which flows are routed, and arbitrary versus restrictive routing and finds that a source-routed, host-pair granularity network with arbitrary routes is the most scalable.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.citationStephens, Brent. "Designing Scalable Networks for Future Large Datacenters." (2012) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64706">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64706</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.slug123456789/ETD-2012-05-182en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/64706en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectComputer scienceen_US
dc.subjectComputer engineeringen_US
dc.subjectNetwork architectureen_US
dc.subjectDatacenter networkingen_US
dc.subjectSoftware-defined networkingen_US
dc.titleDesigning Scalable Networks for Future Large Datacentersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentComputer Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEngineeringen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen_US
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