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Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been described as the hope and hype for the future of networking. Definitions vary, but one research direction has been to separate the control plane from the data plane, introducing abstractions that can provide a global network view, a description of required behavior, and a model of packet forwarding. This is intended as a way to open up the closed-box and...
Conventional datacenters, based on wired networks, entail high wiring costs, suffer from performance bottlenecks, and have low resilience to network failures. In this paper, we investigate a radically new methodology for building wire-free datacenters based on emerging 60GHz RF technology. We propose a novel rack design and a resulting network topology inspired by Cayley graphs that provide a dense...
The built-in caching capability of future Named Data Networking (NDN) promises to enable effective content distribution at a global scale without requiring special infrastructure. The aim of this work is to design efficient caching schemes in NDN to achieve better performance at both the network layer and application layer. With the specific objective of minimizing the inter-ISP (Internet Service...
Modern commodity operating systems do not provide developers with user-space abstractions for building high-speed packet processing applications. The conventional raw socket is inefficient and unable to take advantage of the emerging hardware, like multi-core processors and multi-queue network adapters. In this paper we present the NetSlice operating system abstraction. Unlike the conventional raw...
For a given TCP or UDP flow, protocol processing of incoming packets is performed on the core that receives the interrupt, while the user-space application which consumes the data may run on the same or a different core. If the cores are not the same, additional costs due to context switches, cache misses, and the movement of data between the caches of the cores may occur. The magnitude of this cost...
This paper presents the design and implementation of an incrementally scalable architecture for middleboxes based on commodity servers and operating systems. xOMB, the eXtensible Open MiddleBox, employs general programmable network processing pipelines, with user-defined C++ modules responsible for parsing, transforming, and forwarding network flows. We implement three processing pipelines in xOMB,...
Engineering large-scale data center applications built from thousands of commodity nodes requires both an underlying network that supports a wide variety of traffic demands, and low latency at microsecond timescales. Many ideas for adding innovative functionality to networks, especially active queue management strategies, require either modifying packets or performing alternative queuing to packets...
Longest-prefix name-based forwarding in Content-Centric Networking poses many significant challenges on design of routers and algorithms, because the name space is many orders of magnitude larger and significantly more complex than the IP address space. IP forwarding algorithms are no longer applicable and cannot reach the satisfactory performance. In this paper, we present a framework of fast longest-name-prefix...
Most networking performance enhancements occur through specific static solutions, where the structure of the protocol stack remains unchanged. Instead, we focus on a flexible software and hardware co-design for the entire protocol stack. In this paper, we present EmbedNet, a System-on-Chip implementation of a flexible network architecture for the Future Internet, where parts of the protocol stack...
Packet parsing is the basic operation performed at all points of the network infrastructure. Modern networks impose challenging requirements on the performance and configurability of packet parsing modules, however the high-speed parsers often use very large chip area. We propose novel architecture of pipelined packet parser, which in addition to high throughput (over 100 Gb/s) offers also low latency...
This paper proposes a multi-thread based regular expression (regexp) matching algorithm, M-DFA (multithreaded DFA), for parallel computer architectures such as multi-core processors and graphic processing units (GPU). At the thread level, one thread is designated to traverse the DFA of a possible matching path until its termination, and at the task level multiple threads concurrently match each input...
This paper proposed a platform for rapid prototyping of high-speed and low-power embedded applications in networking. The concept utilizes the FPGA with the embedded processor to benefit from software flexibility and high performance of hardware processing. In comparison with the NetFPGA-cube, the proposed uG4-150 platform has significantly lower power consumption, cost and size.
Most of state-of-the-art packet classification algorithms employ heuristics to trade off between classification speed and memory usage. However, intelligent heuristics often result in complex data structures in algorithm implementation. This brings difficulties to the deployment and optimization of packet classification algorithms. In this poster, a structural compression approach is presented for...
In Named Data Networking (NDN), forwarding lookup is based on tokenized variable-length names instead of fixed-length host addresses, and therefore it requires a new approach for designing a fast packet forwarding lookup engine. In this paper, we propose a design of an NDN software forwarding lookup engine based on hash tables and evaluate its performance with different design options. With a good...
These days, various academic and industrial institutions are sharing the computing resources of cloud data centers. For the sake of security, data center networks need to be separated by institution or department. One conventional approach is using tag-based VLAN standardized in IEEE 802.1Q. However, this approach cannot accommodate scalable networks because of a limitation on the number of VLAN IDs...
With the growing popularity of big-data applications, Data Center Networks increasingly carry larger and longer traffic flows. As a result of this increased flow granularity, static routing cannot efficiently load-balance traffic, resulting in an increased network contention and a reduced throughput. Unfortunately, while adaptive routing can solve this load-balancing problem, network designers refrain...
The single-chip crosspoint-queued (CQ) switch is a self-sufficient switching architecture enabled by state-of-art ASIC technology. Unlike the legacy input-queued or output-queued switches, this kind of switch has all its buffers placed at the crosspoints of input and output lines. Scheduling is also performed inside the switching core, and does not rely on instantaneous communications with input or...
Multicore communications processors have become the main computing element in Internet routers and mobile base stations due to their flexibility and high processing capability. These processors are designed and equipped with enough resources to handle peak traffic loads. But network traffic varies significantly over time and peak traffic is observed very rarely. This variation in amount of traffic...
In this talk, I'll revisit the role of Software in Software-Defined Networking and argue how not only control plane but also forwarding is becoming increasingly only a matter of software development. In short, I'll discuss how x86 is already on its way to transform the networking as we know it.
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