A Recommended Reading List for Data Center Network (Updating...)

This article presents a reading list about Data Center Network (DCN), which is recommended by some other researchers and me. I hope that those papers will be helpful to broaden your horizon if you are also interested in DCN. Of course this article will be continuously updated. Note that some papers are referenced from "A Reading List" in Kai Chen's homepage. Here, I will appreciate his recommending about DCN to the public. 

Introduction

"The Datacenter as a Computer An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines", Synthesis lectures on computer architecture 2009
"Above the Clouds A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing", UCB/EECS 2009
"Cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research challenges", JISA 2010
"Survey on Routing in Data Centers: Insights and Future Directions", IEEE Network 2011
"Rethinking the architecture design of data center networks", FCS 2012

Architecture

"Quartz: A New Design Element for Low-Latency DCNs", SIGCOMM 2014 
"Circuit Switching Under the Radar with REACToR", NSDI 2014 
"Integrating Microsecond Circuit Switching into the Data Center", SIGCOMM 2013 
"Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling: Flexible Wireless Links for Data Centers ", SIGCOMM 2012. 
"OSA: An Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks with Unprecedented Flexibility", NSDI 2012. 
"Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers Randomly", NSDI 2012 
"Augmenting Data Center Networks with Multi-gigabit Wireless Links", SIGCOMM 2011 
"c-Through: Part-time Optics in Data Centers", SIGCOMM 2010 
"Helios: A Hybrid Electrical/Optical Switch Architecture for Modular Data Centers", SIGCOMM 2010 
"SPAIN: COTS Data-Center Ethernet for Multipathing over Arbitrary Topologies", NSDI 2010 
"BCube: A High Performance, Server-centric Network Architecture for Modular Data Centers", SIGCOMM 2009 
"VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network", SIGCOMM 2009 
"PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric", SIGCOMM 2009 
"DCell: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Network Structure for Data Centers", SIGCOMM 2008 
"A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture", SIGCOMM 2008

Greening / Energy

Auto-management

"NetPilot: Automating Datacenter Network Failure Mitigation", SIGCOMM 2012 
"Alias: Scalable, Decentralized Label Assignment for Data Centers", SoCC 2011 
"Generic and Automatic Address Configuration for Data Center Networks", SIGCOMM 2010

Network Virtualization and Resource Allocation

"Application-Driven Bandwidth Guarantees in Datacenters", SIGCOMM 2014 
"Decentralized Task-aware Scheduling for Data Center Networks", SIGCOMM 2014 
"Efficient Coflow Scheduling with Varys", SIGCOMM 2014 
"ElasticSwitch: Practical Work-Conserving Bandwidth Guarantees for Cloud Computing", SIGCOMM 2013 
"EyeQ: Practical Network Performance Isolation at the Edge", NSDI 2013 
"The Only Constant is Change: Incorporating Time Varying Network Reservations in Data Centers", SIGCOMM 2012 
"FairCloud: Sharing The Network In Cloud Computing", SIGCOMM 2012 
"CloudNaaS: A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications", SoCC 2011 
"NetLord: A Scalable Multi-Tenant Network Architecture for Virtualized Datacenters", SIGCOMM 2011 
"Towards Predictable Datacenter Networks", SIGCOMM 2011 
"Sharing the Data Center Network", NSDI 2011 
"Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center", NSDI 2011 
"Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types", NSDI 2011 
"SecondNet: A Data Center Network Virtualization Architecture with Bandwidth Guarantees", CoNEXT 2010

Transport Protocols

"pFabric: Minimal Near-Optimal Datacenter Transport", SIGCOMM 2013 
"Finishing Flows Quickly with Preemptive Scheduling", SIGCOMM 2012 
"Deadline-Aware Datacenter TCP (D2TCP)", SIGCOMM 2012 
"Improving Datacenter Performance and Robustness with Multipath TCP", SIGCOMM 2011 
"Better Never than Late: Meeting Deadlines in Datacenter Networks", SIGCOMM 2011 
"Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control for multipath TCP", NSDI 2011 
"ICTCP: Incast Congestion Control for TCP in Data Center Networks", CoNEXT 2010 
"Data Center TCP (DCTCP)", SIGCOMM 2010 
"Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication", SIGCOMM 2009