On Application-Level Approaches to Avoiding TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-Based Storage Systems

@inproceedings{2007-Krevat-petascale,
    author = "Krevat, Elie and Vasudevan, Vijay and Phanishayee, Amar and Andersen, David G. and Ganger, Gregory R. and Gibson, Garth A. and Seshan, Srinivasan",
    title = "On Application-Level Approaches to Avoiding TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-Based Storage Systems",
    year = "2007",
    isbn = "9781595938992",
    month = "November",
    publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
    address = "New York, NY, USA",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1374596.1374598",
    doi = "10.1145/1374596.1374598",
    abstract = "TCP Incast plagues scalable cluster-based storage built atop standard TCP/IP-over-Ethernet, often resulting in much lower client read bandwidth than can be provided by the available network links. This paper reviews the Incast problem and discusses potential application-level approaches to avoiding it.",
    booktitle = "Workshop on Petascale Data Storage: Held in Conjunction with Supercomputing '07",
    pages = "1–4",
    numpages = "4",
    keywords = "TCP, Incast, cluster-based storage",
    location = "Reno, Nevada",
    series = "PDSW '07"
}