@inproceedings{guo2016deadlocks,
author = {Guo, Chuanxiong and Padhye, Jitu and Zhu, Yibo},
title = {Deadlocks in Datacenter Networks: Why Do They Form, and How to Avoid Them},
booktitle = {ACM HotNets Workshop},
year = {2016},
month = {November},
abstract = {Driven by the need for ultra-low latency, high throughput and low CPU overhead, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is being deployed by many cloud providers. To deploy RDMA in Ethernet networks, Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) must be used. PFC, however, makes Ethernet networks prone to deadlocks. Prior work on deadlock avoidance has focused on [\em necessary] condition for deadlock formation, which leads to rather onerous and expensive solutions for deadlock avoidance. In this paper, we investigate [\em sufficient] conditions for deadlock formation, conjecturing that avoiding [\em sufficient] conditions might be less onerous.},
publisher = {ACM},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/deadlocks-datacenter-networks-form-avoid-2/},
edition = {ACM HotNets Workshop},
}