Abstract
Data centers are the infrastructures that support the cloud computing services. So, their topologies have an important role on controlling the performance of these services. Designing an efficient topology with a high scalability and a good network performance is one of the most important challenges in data centers. This paper surveys recent research advances linked to data center network topologies. We review some representative topologies and discuss their proprieties in details. We compare them in terms of average path length, network fault tolerance, scalability and connection pattern techniques.
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In this document we will use the words “node” and “server” interchangeably.
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This publication was made possible by NPRP grant 6-718-2-298 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.
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Chkirbene, Z., Hamila, R., Foufou, S. (2018). A Survey on Data Center Network Topologies. In: Boudriga, N., Alouini, MS., Rekhis, S., Sabir, E., Pollin, S. (eds) Ubiquitous Networking. UNet 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02849-7_13
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