Purdue University · West Lafayette · Spring 2022

ECE 69500: Datacenter and Cloud Networks

 Lecture (Section 037): Tue, Thu, 3:00–4:15pm in EE 236

Instructor

Vishal Shrivastav
Assistant Professor

Office: EE 334B
vshriva@purdue.edu

Office Hours
Mon 3–4pm on Zoom

Schedule

Day Date Topic
T Jan 11 Course Introduction
R Jan 13 Datacenter Architecture and Topology I
Paper: Fattree
T Jan 18 Datacenter Architecture and Topology II
Paper: VL2
R Jan 20 Datacenter Architecture and Topology III
Paper: Jellyfish
T Jan 25 Datacenter Routing and Load Balancing I
Paper: FLARE
R Jan 27 Datacenter Routing and Load Balancing II
Paper: CONGA
T Feb 1 Datacenter Routing and Load Balancing III
Paper: Let It Flow
R Feb 3 Datacenter Transport I
Paper: DCTCP
T Feb 8 Datacenter Transport II
Paper: pFabric
R Feb 10 Datacenter Transport III
Paper: NDP
T Feb 15 Software-defined Networking I
Paper: Ethane
R Feb 17 Software-defined Networking II
Paper: OpenFlow
T Feb 22 Software-defined Networking III
Paper: B4
R Feb 24 Programmable Data Plane I
Paper: RMT
T Mar 1 Programmable Data Plane II
Paper: PIEO
R Mar 3 Programmable Data Plane III
Paper: ATP
T Mar 8 Multi-tenancy in the Cloud I
Paper: EyeQ
R Mar 10 Multi-tenancy in the Cloud II
Paper: Silo
T Mar 15 Spring Break
R Mar 17 Spring Break
T Mar 22 Multi-tenancy in the Cloud III
Paper: PicNIC
R Mar 24 RDMA inside Datacenter I
Paper: HERD
T Mar 29 RDMA inside Datacenter II
Paper: DCQCN
R Mar 31 RDMA inside Datacenter III
Paper: eRPC
T Apr 5 Resource Disaggregation I
Paper: DDC
R Apr 7 Resource Disaggregation II
Paper: Infiniswap
T Apr 12 Resource Disaggregation III
Paper: Shoal
R Apr 14 Optics inside Datacenter I
Paper: Helios
T Apr 19 Optics inside Datacenter II
Paper: ProjecToR
R Apr 21 Optics inside Datacenter III
Paper: Opera
T Apr 26 Final Project Presentation
R Apr 28 Final Project Presentation