When creek meets river: Exploiting high-bandwidth circuit switch in scheduling multicast data

Abstract

Data multicast is an important data traffic pattern in today's data center running big data oriented applications. The physical layer multicast capability enabled by the emerging technologies used to build circuit switches exhibits huge benefit in transferring multicast data. This paper tackles the problem of scheduling multicast data transfer in high-bandwidth circuit switch. The scheduler aims at minimizing the average demand completion time to deliver the most benefit to the applications. Our algorithm exhibits up to 13.4× improvement comparing with the state-of-the-art solution.