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Modeling and Simulation of Data Center Networks

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Data centers constitute the foundations of cloud computing. Increased adoption of cloud computing in various sectors of life necessitates the data center growth. Cloud providers are facing numerous challenges in data centers design and operation. This chapter presents the modeling and simulation of the major data center network architectures using ns-3. The chapter details the three major DCN architectures and their implementation details.

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  1. North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA

    Kashif Bilal & Samee U. Khan

  2. University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Marc Manzano & Eusebi Calle

  3. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Sajjad A. Madani & Khizar Hayat

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Dan Chen & Lizhe Wang

  5. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Rajiv Ranjan

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Bilal, K. et al. (2015). Modeling and Simulation of Data Center Networks. In: Khan, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Handbook on Data Centers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2092-1_31

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