NetAgg: Using Middleboxes for Application-specific On-path Aggregation in Data Centres
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 9351
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2674005.2674996
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies - CoNEXT '14
- First page
- 249
- Volume
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- Issue
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- ISSN
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://kar.kent.ac.uk/49289/
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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6
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 14
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper is significant because the work described dramatically reduces network hotspots and network congestion, and gives a performance advantage by executing aggregation functions in the data center network i.e. instead of performing data aggregation at edge servers, we show that it can be done more efficiently along network paths. To achieve this, we pioneered the extension of programmable middlebox technology to run application-specific code. The work is applicable to partition-aggregate distributed applications, e.g. batch processing frameworks (Apache Hadoop) and distributed search engines (Apache Solr).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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