A New Two-Layer Topology for Data Center Network

In the cloud computing era, the goal of data center network is not only to interconnect a large number of servers, but also to provide low latency and high bandwidth. A new 2-layer architecture, C-tree, is proposed for cloud computing in this paper. It is a flat topology, in which the horizontal traffic's latency is obviously lower than in traditional three-layer architectures. Also, C-tree can provide high bisection bandwidth which is important for bandwidth-intensive applications. We analyze C-tree theoretically and compare it with other architectures in scalability, accommodation capability, network diameter, bisection bandwidth, path diversity and regularity. We have developed a load balancing routing mechanism to balance the traffic on the parallel links. A network simulation platform is set up to verify the performance of C-tree.