Interconnection Structures, Management and Routing Challenges in Cloud-Service Data Center Networks: A Survey

Authors

  • Ahmad Nahar Quttoum Computer Engineering Department The Faculty of Engineering The Hashemite University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v12i1.7573

Keywords:

Cloud-based Data Center Networks, Structures of Data Center Networks, Network Management, Routing in Data Center Networks.

Abstract


Today’s data center networks employ expensive networking equipments in associated structures that were not designed to meet the increasing requirements of the current large-scale data center services. Limitations that vary between reliability, resource utilization, and high costs are challenging. The era of cloud computing represents a promise to enable large-scale data centers. Computing platforms of such cloud service data centers consist of large number of commodity low-price servers that, with a theme of virtualization on top, can meet the performance of the expensive high-level servers at only a fraction of the price. Recently, the research in data center networks started to evolve rapidly. This opened the path for addressing many of its design and management challenges, these like scalability, reliability, bandwidth capacities, virtual machines’ migration, and cost. Bandwidth resource fragmentation limits the network agility, and leads to low utilization rates, not only for the bandwidth resources, but also for the servers that run the applications. With Traffic Engineering methods, managers of such networks can adapt for rapid changes in the network traffic among their servers, this can help to provide better resource utilization and lower costs. The market is going through exciting changes, and the need to run demanding-scale services drives the work toward cloud networks. These networks that are enabled by the notation of autonomic management, and the availability of commodity low-price network equipments. This work provides the readers with a survey that presents the management challenges, design and operational constraints of the cloud-service data center networks

Author Biography

Ahmad Nahar Quttoum, Computer Engineering Department The Faculty of Engineering The Hashemite University

Ahmad Nahar Quttoum holds an Assistant Professor position at the Computer Engineering Department in the Hashemite University, Jordan. Prior to that, he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the LTIR lab in the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada. In that, he worked on the NetVirt project; a project for Ericsson-Canada, where mainly, he was concerned with Cloud-Service Data Center Networks. In Oct 2011, he obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. His Ph.D. research topic was about Resource Management for Virtualized Networks; a project for Bell Canada. In late 2007, he obtained a M.Sc. degree in Network Systems from the Department of Engineering, Computing & Technology at the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom. During his M.Sc. studies, he worked on various research topics on network security ended with a thesis in security attacks, detection and prevention. In early 2006, he obtained a B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. His research interests include cloud computing, data center networks, virtualized networks, autonomic resource management, and network security. He is also a technical reviewer for different journals and specialized magazines.

 

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Published

2018-01-23

How to Cite

Quttoum, A. N. (2018). Interconnection Structures, Management and Routing Challenges in Cloud-Service Data Center Networks: A Survey. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 12(1), pp. 36–60. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v12i1.7573

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