DiffECN: Differential ECN Marking for Datacenter Networks

Hanlin Huang

doi:10.1109/TNET.2024.3477511

DiffECN: Differential ECN Marking for Datacenter Networks

2025-02-01

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ECN marking has been integrated into datacenter switches to enable high-throughput and low-latency transport. We observe that current marking schemes are coarse-grained: they blindly mark all flows when congestion occurs, causing large flows to occupy undeserved bandwidth and preventing newly arriving small flows from finishing quickly. In this paper, we propose, a differential marking strategy that marks only the flows that are the culprits of congestion and protects the remaining flows from being limited. We have implemented it in the Barefoot Tofino switch and performed extensive evaluations via both physical testbed and large-scale simulations. The results show that can restrain flows responsible for congestion successfully while providing desirable network performance. For instance, compared to the legacy way of ECN marking, achieves up to 32.5% (40.1%) lower average (99th percentile) flow completion time (FCT) for small flows while delivering similar FCT for large flows under production workloads.

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ECN marking

congestion control

datacenter network

DiffECN: Differential ECN Marking for Datacenter Networks

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