# Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks

## Prior Works

### Origin Paper
#### Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks  
Mohammad Al-Fares, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, B. Raghavan, Nelson Huang, Amin Vahdat  
2010

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## Summary
**Hedera is presented, a scalable, dynamic flow scheduling system that adaptively schedules a multi-stage switching fabric to efficiently utilize aggregate network resources and delivers bisection bandwidth that is 96% of optimal and up to 113% better than static load-balancing methods.**

**Citations:** 1733 Citations