ns3-datacenter

This repository contains the source code used for PowerTCP (NSDI 2022) and ABM (SIGCOMM 2022).

This is a beta release. Please raise issues if you encounter any.

We extend ns-3.35 to support some of the recent advancements in the datacenter context.

• Various datacenter congestion control algorithms including PowerTCP over both TCP/IP and RDMA stacks can be used simulataneously.
• The switch MMU is based on SONIC buffer model (purely based on our understanding only).
• Support for several Buffer Management algorithms including ABM.

Many additions to the source code are based on prior work: ns3-rdma and HPCC. Please consider citing the following papers if you use this repository in your research.

@inproceedings{nsdi22,
  author = {Addanki, Vamsi and Michel, Oliver and Schmid, Stefan},
  title = {{PowerTCP}: Pushing the Performance Limits of Datacenter Networks},
  booktitle = {19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 22)},
  year = {2022},
  address = {Renton, WA},
  url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/addanki},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
  month = {April},
}

@inproceedings{abm,
  author = {Addanki, Vamsi and Apostolaki, Maria and Ghobadi, Manya and Schmid, Stefan and Vanbever, Laurent},
  title = {ABM: Active Buffer Management in Datacenters},
  year = {2022},
  month = {August},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference},
  address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands}
}

Configure and Build

In the following, $REPO = path to the root directory of this repository. Change $REPO accordingly.

Configure ns3:

cd $REPO/simulator/ns-3.35/
CXXFLAGS=-w ./waf configure --build-profile=optimized --enable-examples --disable-tests --disable-python

Build:

cd $REPO/simulator/ns-3.35/
./waf

Running PowerTCP

Checkout simulator/ns-3.35/examples/PowerTCP for various simulation files and scripts to run PowerTCP.

Running ABM

Checkout simulator/ns-3.35/examples/ABM for simulation files and scripts to run ABM and other buffer management algorithms. Note: This only runs in the TCP/IP stack and this is what we used in the paper. Support for the RDMA stack and mixed stack will be updated in the upcoming months.

Important Files

simulator/ns-3.35/src/point-to-point/model/qbb-net-device.cc: This file is modified such that it can send and receive both RDMA and TCP/IP traffic. Note: only bulk-send-application and packet-sink should be used for TCP/IP traffic for correctness. Some examples on how to launch RDMA traffic can be found in simulator/ns-3.35/examples/PowerTCP folder.

simulator/ns-3.35/src/point-to-point/model/rdma-hw.cc: This file contains the core logic of PowerTCP and Theta-PowerTCP. The entire file is almost same as the one in HPCC simulator.

simulator/ns-3.35/src/point-to-point/model/switch-node.cc: This file is also modified to support both RDMA and TCP/IP traffic. Minor change in INT, for PowerTCP, RXBytes is appended instead of TxBytes. This is since $\lambda(t) = \mu(t) + \dot{q}(t)$ i.e., RxRate is TxRate + Queue gradient where $\lambda$ is required for PowerTCP to calculate power.

simulator/ns-3.35/src/point-to-point/model/switch-mmu.cc: This file has the core logic for buffer management. Currently only Dynamic Thresholds (DT) is supported. Note: This is not what we used for ABM in the paper. However, there is an ongoing effort to bring ABM to such a mixed stack.

simulator/ns-3.35/src/traffic-control/model/gen-queue-disc.cc: This file contains various buffer management algorithms at the traffic-control layer. It can only be used in the TCP/IP stack. Note: This is what we used for ABM in the paper.

simulator/ns-3.35/src/internet/model/tcp-advanced.cc: This file contains various datacenter congestion control algorithms including PowerTCP implemented in the TCP/IP stack. This is what we used for ABM in the paper.

Changes to NS-3.35

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