Integrated admission and congestion control for QoS support in clusters

Ki Hwan Yum, Eun Jung Kim, C. R. Das, M. Yousif, J. Duato

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Abstract

Admission and congestion control mechanisms are integral parts of any Quality of Service (QoS) design for networks that support integrated traffic. In this paper we propose an-admission control algorithm and a congestion control algorithm for clusters, which are increasingly being used in a diverse set of applications that require QoS guarantees. The uniqueness of our approach is that we develop these algorithms for wormhole-switched networks. We use QoS-capable wormhole routers and QoS-capable network interface cards (NICs), referred to as Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) in InfiniBand™ Architecture (IBA), to evaluate the effectiveness of these algorithms. The admission control is applied at the HCAs and the routers, while the congestion control is deployed only at the HCAs. Simulation results indicate that the admission and congestion control algorithms are quite effective in delivering the assured performance. The proposed credit-based congestion control algorithm is simple and practical in that it relies on hardware already available in the HCA to regulate traffic injection.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2002
EditorsBill Gropp, Rajkumar Buyya, Rob Pennington, Maxine Brown, Mark Baker, Dan Reed
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages325-332
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)0769517455
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
EventIEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2002 - Chicago, United States
Duration: Sep 23 2002Sep 26 2002

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC
Volume2002-January
ISSN (Print)1552-5244

Other

OtherIEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2002
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago
Period9/23/029/26/02

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Signal Processing

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