AUTHORS
Alex X Liu received his PhD degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin in 2006, and is currently the Chief Scientist of Ant Financial, part of Alibaba Group. Before joining Ant Financial, he was a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He received the IEEE & IFIP William C Carter Award in 2004, a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009, the Michigan State University Withrow Distinguished Scholar (Junior) Award in 2011, and the Michigan State University Withrow Distinguished Scholar (Senior) Award in 2019. He has served as an Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and he is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and an Area Editor for Computer Communications. He has served as the TPC Co-Chair for ICNP 2014 and IFIP Networking 2019. He received Best Paper Awards from SECON-2018, ICNP-2012, SRDS-2012, and LISA-2010. His research interests focus on networking, security, and privacy. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.



Ali Munir is a research scholar at Cornell University, USA. His research interests focus on the measurement, modeling, design, optimization, and management of networking and security systems. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University USA in 2019, MS degree in Electrical Engineering and BS degree in Electronics Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan in 2012 and 2009, respectively. He has also worked for leading tech companies like Hewlett Packard Labs USA, IBM Research T J Watson USA, AT&T Labs Inc USA, and Microsoft Research Cambridge UK and served as a Lecturer at National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan. He was the Editor for COMCOM Special Issue on IFIP Networking 2019 and served as the TPC Co-Chair as well as EDAS Chair for IFIP Networking 2019. He is the recipient of the IFIP Networking Best Service Award (2019), the Michigan State University Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2019), the Michigan State University Dr Carl V Page Graduate Fellowship Award (2019), the Michigan State University Dr Herman D Hughes Graduate Fellowship Award (2018), and the National University of Sciences and Technology President Gold Medal (2009). He lives in New York with his wife.

SUMMARY

This unique compendium focuses on the design and implementation of emerging transport protocols and task scheduling mechanisms to mitigate congestion in datacentre networks. Datacenters have become a critical infrastructure for hosting user-facing online services such as web search and social networking.

For datacenter transport, this volume highlights the design and implementation details of the state-of-art transport protocols that not only achieves optimal performance in terms of minimizing flow completion times but are also deployment friendly.

Moreover, this must-have reference material also discusses the transport protocols for multi-tenant datacentre networks. For datacenter task scheduling, the book introduces an innovative task placement framework that considers network scheduling while making task placement decisions.