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Citation
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon. "Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Communication Between Data Centers". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 19(3):617-629, 2012.

Abstract
The global network of data centers 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 applications and protocols: A loss rate as low as 0.1% is sufficient to reduce TCP/IP throughput by an order of magnitude on a 1-Gb/s link with 50-ms one-way latency. Maelstrom is an edge appliance that masks packet loss transparently and quickly from intercluster protocols, aggregating traffic for high-speed encoding and using a new forward error correction scheme to handle bursty loss.

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  Weatherspoon. <a
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  >Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for
  Communication Between Data Centers</a>,
  <i>IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
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  Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim
  Weatherspoon. "Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction
  for Communication Between Data Centers".
  <i>IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  (ToN)</i>, 19(3):617-629,  2012.

• BibTeX

  @article{BalakrishnanMarianBirmanWeatherspoon12_MaelstromTransparentErrorCorrectionForCommunication,
      author = {Mahesh Balakrishnan and Tudor Marian and Ken
                Birman and Hakim Weatherspoon},
      title = {Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for
                Communication Between Data Centers},
      journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)},
      volume = {19},
      number = {3},
      pages = {pp.617-629},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {The global network of data centers 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 applications and
                protocols: A loss rate as low as 0.1% is
                sufficient to reduce TCP/IP throughput by an order
                of magnitude on a 1-Gb/s link with 50-ms one-way
                latency. Maelstrom is an edge appliance that masks
                packet loss transparently and quickly from
                intercluster 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/880.html}
  }
  

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