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ZTE Communications ›› 2018, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (2): 42-54.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2018.02.008

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  • 收稿日期:2017-03-22 出版日期:2018-06-25 发布日期:2019-12-12

SOPA: Source Routing Based Packet-Level Multi-Path Routing in Data Center Networks

LI Dan1, LIN Du1, JIANG Changlin1, Wang Lingqiang2   

  1. 1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    2. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2017-03-22 Online:2018-06-25 Published:2019-12-12
  • About author:LI Dan (tolidan@tsinghua.edu.cn) received the M.E. degree and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, China in 2005 and 2007 respectively, both in computer science. Before that, he spent four undergraduate years in Beijing Normal University, China and got a B.S. degree in 2003, also in computer science. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in Jan. 2008, where he worked as an associate researcher in Wireless and Networking Group until Feb. 2010. He joined the faculty of Tsinghua University in Mar. 2010, where he is now an associate professor at Computer Science Department. His research interests include Internet architecture and protocol design, data center network, and software defined networking.|LIN Du (lindu1992@foxmail.com) received the B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, China in 2015. Now, he is a master candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. His research interests include Internet architecture, data center network, and high-performance network system.|JIANG Changlin (jiangchanglin@csnet1.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Institute of Communication Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, China in 2001 and 2004 respectively. Now, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China. His research interests include Internet architecture, data center network, and network routing.|WANG Lingqiang (wang.lingqiang@zte.com.cn) received the B.S. degree from Department of Industrial Automation, Zhengzhou University, China in 1999. He is a system architect of ZTE Corporation. He focuses on technical planning and pre-research work in IP direction. His research interests include smart pipes, next generation broadband technology, and programmable networks.
  • Supported by:
    The work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) under Grant No. 2014CB347800 and No. 2012CB315803, the National High-Tech R&D Program of China (863 program) under Grant No. 2013AA013303, the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61170291, No.61133006, and No.61161140454, and ZTE Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Funds.

Abstract:

Many “rich-connected” topologies with multiple parallel paths between servers have been proposed for data center networks recently to provide high bisection bandwidth, but it remains challenging to fully utilize the high network capacity by appropriate multi-path routing algorithms. As flow-level path splitting may lead to traffic imbalance between paths due to flow size difference, packet-level path splitting attracts more attention lately, which spreads packets from flows into multiple available paths and significantly improves link utilizations. However, it may cause packet reordering, confusing the TCP congestion control algorithm and lowering the throughput of flows. In this paper, we design a novel packet-level multi-path routing scheme called SOPA, which leverages OpenFlow to perform packet-level path splitting in a round-robin fashion, and hence significantly mitigates the packet reordering problem and improves the network throughput. Moreover, SOPA leverages the topological feature of data center networks to encode a very small number of switches along the path into the packet header, resulting in very light overhead. Compared with random packet spraying (RPS), Hedera and equal-cost multi-path routing (ECMP), our simulations demonstrate that SOPA achieves 29.87%, 50.41% and 77.74% higher network throughput respectively under permutation workload, and reduces average data transfer completion time by 53.65%, 343.31% and 348.25% respectively under production workload.

Key words: data center networks, multi-path routing, path splitting