Host Congestion Control
Saksham Agarwal, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Rachit Agarwal
Abstract
The conventional wisdom in systems and networking communities is that congestion happens primarily within the network fabric. However, adoption of high-bandwidth access links and relatively stagnant technology trends for resources within hosts have led to emergence of host congestion---that is, congestion within the host network that enables data exchange between NIC and CPU/memory. Such host congestion alters the many assumptions entrenched within decades of research and practice of congestion control.
Topics & Concepts
Network congestionHost (biology)Computer scienceComputer networkNetwork traffic controlComputer securityNetwork packetBiologyEcologyNetwork Traffic and Congestion ControlAdvanced Data Storage TechnologiesCloud Computing and Resource Management