Datacenter Network Monitoring and Management - 2025

Intro

17.02. Intro to Data Center networks

Data centers topologies and routing

24.02. FatTree
SIGCOMM ‘08 - A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture
Mohammad Al-Fares, Alexander Loukissas, Amin Vahdat

03.03. Jellyfish
NSDI ‘12 - Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers Randomly
Ankit Singla, Chi-Yao Hong, Lucian Popa, P. Brighten Godfrey

10.03. Mosaic
SIGCOMM ‘25 - Mosaic: Breaking the Optics versus Copper Trade-off with a Wide-and-Slow Architecture and MicroLEDs
Kaoutar Benyahya, Ariel Gomez Diaz, Junyi Liu, Vassily Lyutsarev, Marianna Pantouvaki, Kai Shi, Shawn Yohanes Siew, Hitesh Ballani, Thomas Burridge, Daniel Cletheroe, Thomas Karagiannis, Brian Robertson, Ant Rowstron, Mengyang Yang, Arash Behziz, Jamie Gaudette Paolo Costa

Communication and protocols

17.03. DCTCP
SIGCOMM ‘10 - Data Center TCP (DCTCP)
Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David A. Maltz, Jitendra Padhye, Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta†, Murari Sridharan

24.03. NDP
SIGCOMM ‘17 - Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance
Mark Handley, Costin Raiciu, Alexandru Agache, Andrei Voinescu, Andrew W. Moore, Gianni Antichi, Marcin Wójcik

31.03. Stellar
SIGCOMM ‘25 - Alibaba Stellar: A New Generation RDMA Network for Cloud AI
Jie Lu, Jiaqi Gao, Fei Feng, Zhiqiang He, Menglei Zheng, Kun Liu, Jun He, Binbin Liao, Suwei Xu, Ke Sun, Yongjia Mo, Qinghua Peng, Jilie Luo, Qingxu Li, Gang Lu, Zishu Wang, Jianbo Dong, Kunling He, Sheng Cheng, Jiamin Cao, Hairong Jiao, Pengcheng Zhang, Shu Ma, Lingjun Zhu, Chao Shi, Yangming Zhang, Yiquan Chen, Wei Wang, Shuhong Zhu, Xingru Li, Qiang Wang, Jiang Liu, Chao Wang, Wei Lin, Ennan Zhai, Jiesheng Wu, Qiang Liu, Binzhang Fu, Dennis Cai

Applications

14.04. Paper1 Paper2
HotNets ‘25 - Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services
Ziming Mao, Jonathan Ellithorpe, Atul Adya, Rishabh Iyer, Matei Zaharia, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
HotNets ‘25 - Automatically Surfacing Opportunities for Improvements In Internet-Scale Applications
Vipul Harsh, Sayan Sinha, Henry Milner, Haijie Wu, B. Aditya Prakash, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang

21.04. CATO
NSDI ‘25 - CATO: End-to-End Optimization of ML-Based Traffic Analysis Pipelines
Gerry Wan, Shinan Liu, Francesco Bronzino, Nick Feamster, Zakir Durumeric

28.04. TLadder
SIGCOMM ‘25 - TLadder: QoE-Centric Video Ladder Optimization with Playback Feedback at Billion Scale
Zhuqi Li, He Liu, Shenglan Huang, Baojin Geng, Jack Chen, Jialin Chen, Liyang Sun, Qianyun Ma, Peizhe Liu, Junjun Zhao, Yiting Liao, Jamie Chen, Qian Ma, Qiang Ma, Feng Qian

Monitoring and Management

05.05. OpenFlow
SIGCOMM CCR ‘2008 - OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks
Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan, Guru Parulkar, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, Jonathan Turner

12.05. SkeletonHunter
SIGCOMM ‘25 - SkeletonHunter: Diagnosing and Localizing Network Failures in Containerized Large Model Training
Wei Liu, Kun Qian, Zhenhua Li, Tianyin Xu, Yunhao Liu, Weicheng Wang, Yun Zhang, Jiakang Li, Shuhong Zhu, Xue Li, Hongfei Xu, Fei Feng, Ennan Zhai

Security and Verification

19.05. Paper1 Paper2
HotNets ‘25 - Tackling Ambiguity in User Intent for LLM-based Network Configuration Synthesis
Rajdeep Mondal, Nikolaj Bjorner, Todd Millstein, Alan Tang, George Varghese
HotNets ‘25 - Towards Accessible Model-Free Verification
Alexander Krentsel, Oliver Ye, Anthony Tafoya, Xuqian Ma, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Anees Shaikh

26.05. NDD
NSDI ‘25 - NDD: A Decision Diagram for Network Verification
Zechun Li, Peng Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Hongkun Yang

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• What is the problem the paper tries to solve?
• What is the solution the paper offers?
• Say something positiove about a paper.
• Say something negative about the paperf.
• Is it a good paper and why?