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An adaptive failure recovery mechanism based on asymmetric routing for data center networks

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As the infrastructure of high-performance computing, the data center network plays an important role. As network failures occur frequently, data center networks demand highly performed, robust, and energy-efficient failure recovery mechanisms. Despite process, the existing work still has a huge scope to improve to satisfy these requirements. The backup-based failure recovery schemes reserve backup paths in advance, which results in a large energy consumption under normal network conditions. In order to solve the energy consumption problem, the existing adaptive failure recovery schemes are proposed to calculate the rerouting path of the traffic on the failed link, which reduces the energy consumption. However, most adaptive fault recovery solutions apply multi-path routing to calculate the re-routing path. As multi-path routing cannot detect the congestion status of the path under the asymmetric topology caused by link failures, the network is congested, which ends up in less robustness of the network. In view of this, we design and evaluate AFRM, a novel adaptive failure recovery mechanism that overcomes these challenges. AFRM uses asymmetrical routing to calculate the re-routing path by being congestion-aware and is more robust to topological asymmetries compared with existing schemes. The asymmetrical routing dynamically schedules flows to the path with the least marginal cost, which makes AFRM much more energy-efficient. Additionally, AFRM achieves fast link failure detection based on hash storage and flow table matching. Evaluations show that AFRM can do the trade-off between failure recovery time and energy consumption, reduce flow completion time, and increase network throughput compared with existing schemes.

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This work was supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2018YFE0202800, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61634004 and 61934002, the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province for Distinguished Young Scholars under Grant No. 2020JC-26, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. JB190105, the Open Project Program of the State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing under Grant No. 2019A01, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation No. 2018M633465.

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    Yong Liu, Huaxi Gu, Xiaoshan Yu & Yunhao Wang

  2. School of Computer Science, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

    Kun Wang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, Wuxi, China

    Xiaoshan Yu

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Liu, Y., Gu, H., Wang, K. et al. An adaptive failure recovery mechanism based on asymmetric routing for data center networks. J Supercomput 77, 2103–2123 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-020-03337-4

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