The Abstention Protocol: RCA for Clos Fabrics
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arXiv:2608.21412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Root cause analysis (RCA) in large datacenter networks is challenging because telemetry is noisy, partial, and asynchronous. Score-based approaches degrade under these conditions, often yielding unstable or incorrect attributions. We present \textsc{CoreSec}, a production RCA system that replaces weighted fusion with a PAM-style abstention algebra. Telemetry agents are composed using control flags that yield deterministic decisions and explicit abstention when evidence is ambiguous. CoreSec combines this algebra with topology-aware configurations
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.21412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Root cause analysis (RCA) in large datacenter networks is challenging because telemetry is noisy, partial, and asynchronous.
- Score-based approaches degrade under these conditions, often yielding unstable or incorrect attributions.
- We present \textsc{CoreSec}, a production RCA system that replaces weighted fusion with a PAM-style abstention algebra.
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