WarpNet: A Novel Network for IaaS Data Center

Abstract

Data-intensive processing (such as map-reduce) frameworks are increasingly being used in the cloud computing environment, which makes it critical for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) framework to support All-to-All communication are very large scale. This paper presents a novel network model, WarpNet, which combine the idea of small world and IP over IP based micro-router. This network model helps build appropriate network infrastructure for IaaS, using low-cost network devices while providing great extensibility, automatic fault tolerance and high performance at the same time. This paper analyzes the theoretical nature of WarpNet, presents the real-world implementation and deployment of the network model, and provides the verification results at large scale.