[PDF] ICON: Incast Congestion Control using Packet Pacing in Datacenter Networks

https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hrezaei/ICON_Main.pdf

H Rezaei, H Almasi, MU Chaudhry, B Vamanan

Datacenters host a mix of applications which generate qualitatively distinct traffic patterns and impose varying network objectives. Online, user-facing applications generate manyto-one, incast traffic of mostly short flows, which are sensitive to tail of …