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 4: 4/4-10/4/2022

Read the articles

The following scientific articles will be discussed in this week.

  1. M. Alizadeh et. al.: CONGA: Distributed Congestion-Aware Load Balancing for Datacenters

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

Watch the videos

CONGA: Distributed Congestion-Aware Load Balancing for Datacenters

P4 Lab Exercise

If not done so, finish your ECMP exercise from last week.. You find more information on the GIT.

Quizz

Find the Quizz for Week 3 and 4 on Canvas.