HS-DCell: A Highly Scalable DCell-Based Server-Centric Topology for Data Center Networks

Topology design is vital to the high performance data center networks. Due to the limited scalability, many traditional server-centric data center networks are confronting the updating and upgrading hurdles. To address the issue, this paper proposes a highly scalable DCell-based server-centric data center network topology, called HS-DCell, which can use inexpensive and typical switches and servers with only three network ports to achieve excellent network performance HS-DCell can accommodate a large number of servers, and its diameter increases linearly with the growth of network levels, which is better than that of most existing server-centric networks. Furthermore, a fault-free routing algorithm and a fault-tolerant routing algorithm are developed based on HS-DCell. Compared with other mainstream server-centric network topologies, the experimental results show that HS-DCell has obvious advantages in many key performance indicators including scalability, fault tolerance, and server port utilization.