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Citation
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Einar Vollset. "Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda Networks". 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April, 2008.

Abstract
The global network of datacenters is emerging as an important distributed systems paradigm—commodity clusters running high-performance applications, connected by high-speed ‘lambda’ networks across hundreds of milliseconds of network latency. Packet loss on long-haul networks can cripple application performance — a loss rate of 0.1% is sufficient to reduce TCP/IP throughput by an order of magnitude on a 1 Gbps link with 50ms latency. Maelstrom is an edge appliance that masks packet loss transparently and quickly from inter-cluster protocols, aggregating traffic for high-speed encoding and using a new Forward Error Correction scheme to handle bursty loss.

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  Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim
  Weatherspoon, Einar Vollset. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/619.html"
  >Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda
  Networks</a>, 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked
  Systems Design and Implementation, April, 2008.

• Plain text

  Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim
  Weatherspoon, Einar Vollset. "Maelstrom: Transparent
  Error Correction for Lambda Networks". 5th USENIX
  Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation,
  April, 2008.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{BalakrishnanMarianBirmanWeatherspoonVollset08_MaelstromTransparentErrorCorrectionForLambdaNetworks,
      author = {Mahesh Balakrishnan and Tudor Marian and Ken
                Birman and Hakim Weatherspoon and Einar Vollset},
      title = {Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda
                Networks},
      booktitle = {5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design
                and Implementation},
      month = {April},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {The global network of datacenters is emerging as
                an important distributed systems
                paradigm—commodity clusters running
                high-performance applications, connected by
                high-speed ‘lambda’ networks across hundreds
                of milliseconds of network latency. Packet loss on
                long-haul networks can cripple application
                performance — a loss rate of 0.1% is sufficient
                to reduce TCP/IP throughput by an order of
                magnitude on a 1 Gbps link with 50ms latency.
                Maelstrom is an edge appliance that masks packet
                loss transparently and quickly from inter-cluster
                protocols, aggregating traffic for high-speed
                encoding and using a new Forward Error Correction
                scheme to handle bursty loss.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/619.html}
  }
  

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