R02 ACS MPhil - Network Architectures
Third Essay (Set Dec 4, due Jan 20)

Scalability

This paper radically changed how people thought about the protocol stack and switches:

Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance
NDP (sigcomm 2017):
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3098825
also at:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2324/R02/papers/p29-Handley.pdf

Can we draw a line from that to these two papers from this year:

Falcon
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3718958.3754353

Alibaba 
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3718958.3750539 

Taken from:
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025/program/papers-info/ 


Again, the essay can be in the form of notes, if you prefer that to long sentences/parageraphs.
tables/diagrams welcome, extracts from the papers are fine if attributed, and cite any other relevant work you read
while carrying out this assignment.