@inproceedings{bec4789e999e47708023c906b8fad1e6,
title = "Flow-slice: A novel load-balancing scheme for multi-path switching systems",
abstract = "Multi-Path Switching systems (MPS) are intensively used in the state-of-the-art core routers. One of the most intractable issues is how to load-balance traffic across its multiple paths while not disturbing the intra-flow packet orders. In this paper, based on the studies of tens of real Internet traces, we develop a novel scheme, namely Flow-Slice (FS), which cuts off each flow into flow-slices at every intra-flow interval larger than a slicing threshold set to 1ms 4ms and balances the load on the finer granularity. Through theoretical analyses and comprehensive trace-driven simulations, we show that FS achieves impressive load-balancing performance with little hardware cost while limiting the packet out-of-order chances to a negligible level (below 10 -6).",
keywords = "flow-slice, load-balancing, multi-path switching",
author = "Lei Shi and Bin Liu and Changhua Sun and Zhengyu Yin and Laxmi Bhuyan and Chao, {H. Jonathan}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1145/1323548.1323559",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781595939456",
series = "ANCS'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications",
pages = "45--46",
booktitle = "ANCS'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications",
note = "3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, ANCS 2007 ; Conference date: 03-12-2007 Through 04-12-2007",
}