Link Load Correlation-Based Blocking Performance Analysis for Tree-Type Data Center Networks

Abstract

With the explosive growth of cloud computing applications, the east-west traffic among servers has come to occupy the dominant proportion of the traffic in data center networks (DCNs). Cloud computing tasks need to be executed in a distributed manner on multiple servers, which exchange large amounts of intermediate data between the adjacent stages of each multi-stage task. Therefore, the congestion in DCNs can reduce the processing performance when conducting multi-stage tasks. To address this, the relationship between the blocking performance and the traffic load can be adopted as a theoretical basis for network planning and traffic engineering. In this paper, the traffic load correlation between edge links and aggregation links is considered, and an iterative blocking performance analysis method is proposed for two-layer tree-type DCNs. The simulation results show the good accuracy of the proposed method with respect to the theoretical results especially in the blocking rate range below 4% and with over-subscription ratio 1.5.