Welcome to module 2: March 14 – April 24, 2022
Learning Outcomes – Datacenter Networking and Load Balancing (DVAD42)
March 14 – April 24, 2022
During the following six weeks, the focus will be on applying data plane programming and P4 to data center networks and network layer load balancing. You will both read about theoretical aspects of load balancing inside data center networks and practically learn how to implement them in P4. This will help you to generate new ideas in how to apply P4 to create advanced data center loadbalancing solutions.
Week 1: 14/3-20/3/2022
Participate in the Webinar
Time: Monday, March 14th at 17.00-18.30 CET
- The course will start with an introduction webinar where we will introduce challenges and approaches for data center networking.
- View the Slides for the Webinar.
- View the Webinar Recording. This is recording from 2021. In 2022, there will be no live webinar.
- Check the Mentimeter.
Read the articles
The following scientific article will be discussed in this week:
- D. Abts and B. Felderman: A Guided Tour of Data-Center networking
Click here to get information about how to find and acquire the articles.
Additional reading (for interested) can be found in the following quite extensive and actively updated reading list maintained by Roberto Bifulco, Stefan Schmid and Gábor Rétvári
https://rg0now.github.io/prog_dataplane_reading_list/README.html
Also, these two articles are a very good read:
- Inside the Social Network’s (Datacenter) Network. A. Roy, et al. [Link]
- A scalable, commodity data center network architecture. M. Al-Fares, et al. [Link]
Watch the video
Inside a Google Data Center
Basic Introduction into different load balancing solutions
SR-IOV, its benefits and disadvantages for Telcos
Assignment
Quizz on Data Center Networking, see Canvas.