数据中心网络传输协议综述  

Transport Protocols for Data Center Networks: A Survey

作　　者：曾高雄 胡水海 张骏雪 陈凯[1] Zeng Gaoxiong;Hu Shuihai;Zhang Junxue;Chen Kai(Department of Computer Science and Engineering,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,Hong Kong 999077)

机构地区：[1]香港科技大学计算机科学与工程系

出　　处：《计算机研究与发展》2020年第1期74-84,共11页Journal of Computer Research and Development

摘　　要：近10年来,在盛行的网络应用(如搜索、在线零售和云计算等)的需求驱动下,数据中心在全球范围内以前所未有的速度和规模发展建立起来.特别地,数据中心网络引起了学术界和工业界的广泛关注.在这样的背景下,调研了数据中心网络的一个核心方面——传输层协议.虽然传输协议在因特网上已经有很长的历史,它却直到2010年才在数据中心网络环境下被系统性地探索.数据中心网络有着和因特网不一样的特点(如单一控制域和同构网络架构),这给数据中心网络上的传输协议设计同时带来了机遇和挑战.在这驱使下,一系列的传输协议被设计提出.将早期(2010—2015年)数据中心网络传输设计方面的工作分成3类——基于端主机的拥塞控制、网络仲裁机制和交换机优先级调度,对这3类工作的优缺点作深入讨论.最后,分析近年来数据中心网络传输设计的研究趋势——接收端驱动的主动拥塞控制和RDMA传输协议设计.Driven by the need of prevailing Web applications and services(e.g.,search,online retailing,and cloud computing),data centers(DCs)have been built at an unforeseen rate and scale around the globe in the recent decades.In particular,data center networks(DCNs)have drawn great attention from both academia and industry.Under such a background,this paper surveys one of the key aspects of DCN—transport layer protocol.While transport protocol has a long history on the Internet,it is seldom systematically explored in the DCN context until 2010s.DCN presents different characteristics(e.g.,single administrative domain,and homogeneous network structure)from the Internet.This brings about both opportunities and challenges for transport protocol design over it.Motivated by this,a bunch of transport protocols have been proposed.This paper classifies the early work(2010—2015)on DCN transport design into three categories—endhost-based congestion control,switch-assisted arbitration,and network priority scheduling.The paper discusses the pros and cons of the work from the three categories.At last,the paper analyzes the recent research trend on DCN transport design—receiver-driven proactive congestion control,and RDMA(remote direct memory access)transport design.

关 键 词：数据中心网络 传输层协议 拥塞控制 显式拥塞通告 远程直接内存访问 

分 类 号：TP393[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术]