Switch cost and packet delay tradeoff in data center networks withn switch reconfiguration overhead

摘要

Cost minimization is a major concern in data center networks (DCNs). Existing DCNs generally adopt Clos network with crossbar middle switches to achieve non-blocking data switching among the servers, and the number of middle switches is proportional to the number of ports of the aggregation switches in a fixed manner. Besides, reconfiguration overhead of the switches is generally ignored, which may contradict the engineering practice. In this paper, we consider batch scheduling based packet swit