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   <front>
      <title>Transport Considerations for Large-Scale Distributed Inference Networks</title>
      <author initials="Z." surname="Li" fullname="Zhiqiang Li">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="Z." surname="Du" fullname="Zongpeng Du">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="J." surname="Wang" fullname="Junjie Wang">
         <organization>Centec</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="W." surname="Cheng" fullname="Wei Cheng">
         <organization>Centec</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="G." surname="Zhang" fullname="Guoying Zhang">
         <organization>Centec</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="X." surname="Sun" fullname="Xun Sun">
         <organization>Inesa</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="C." surname="Zhao" fullname="Chunhao Zhao">
         <organization>SAIA</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="July" day="4" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   Large-scale distributed inference systems generate traffic patterns
   that differ from both traditional data center workloads and
   distributed training workloads.  Disaggregated prefill/decode serving
   transfers key-value cache state between server pools, and expert-
   parallel architectures generate all-to-all traffic among expert
   groups.  These flows are typically carried over a small number of
   RDMA connections, producing low-entropy traffic that is prone to
   uneven link utilization under Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) forwarding.

   This document specifies transport considerations for such networks,
   covering path load awareness, path steering through ECMP entropy
   variation, ordering tolerance at the receiver, and differentiated
   reliability for data with different loss sensitivity.  The discussion
   builds on existing IETF building blocks; this document does not
   define new protocol elements.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-li-tsvwg-inference-transport-00" />
   
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