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BwE: Flexible, Hierarchical Bandwidth Allocation for WAN Distributed Computing

Alok Kumar

Amin Vahdat

Aspi Siganporia

Björn Carlin

C. Stephen Gunn

Enrique Cauich Zermeno

Jing Ai

Mathieu Robin

Mihai Amarandei-Stavila

Nikhil Kasinadhuni

Stephen Stuart

Sushant Jain

Uday Naik

ACM SIGCOMM 2015 (to appear)

BwE: Flexible, Hierarchical Bandwidth Allocation for WAN Distributed Computing

Alok Kumar

Sushant Jain

Uday Naik

Nikhil Kasinadhuni

Enrique Cauich Zermeno

C. Stephen Gunn

Jing Ai

Björn Carlin

Mihai Amarandei-Stavila

Mathieu Robin

Aspi Siganporia

Stephen Stuart

Amin Vahdat

Sigcomm '15, Google Inc (2015)

B4: Experience with a Globally Deployed Software Defined WAN

Sushant Jain

Alok Kumar

Subhasree Mandal

Joon Ong

Leon Poutievski

Arjun Singh

Subbaiah Venkata

Jim Wanderer

Junlan Zhou

Min Zhu

Jonathan Zolla

Urs Hölzle

Stephen Stuart

Amin Vahdat

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Hong Kong, China (2013)

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Upward Max Min Fairness

Emilie Danna

Avinatan Hassidim

Haim Kaplan

Alok Kumar

Yishay Mansour

Danny Raz

Michal Segalov

INFOCOM (2012)

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