Hardware-accelerated platforms and infrastructures for network functions: A survey of enabling technologies and research studies

P Shantharama, AS Thyagaturu, M Reisslein - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to facilitate flexible network service virtualization and migration, network functions
(NFs) are increasingly executed by software modules as so-called “softwarized NFs” on …

PacketMill: toward per-Core 100-Gbps networking

A Farshin, T Barbette, A Roozbeh… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present PacketMill, a system for optimizing software packet processing, which (i)
introduces a new model to efficiently manage packet metadata and (ii) employs code …

What you need to know about (smart) network interface cards

GP Katsikas, T Barbette, M Chiesa, D Kostić… - … Conference on Passive …, 2021 - Springer
Network interface cards (NICs) are fundamental components of modern high-speed
networked systems, supporting multi-100 Gbps speeds and increasing programmability …

NFV platforms: Taxonomy, design choices and future challenges

T Zhang, H Qiu, L Linguaglossa… - … on Network and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the intrinsically inefficient service provisioning in traditional networks, Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) keeps gaining attention from both industry and academia. By …

S2H: Hypervisor as a setter within Virtualized Network I/O for VM isolation on cloud platform

Y Yang, H Jiang, G Zhang, X Wang, Y Lv, X Li… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Virtualized Network I/O (VNIO) plays a key role in providing the network connectivity
to cloud services, as it delivers packets for Virtual Machines (VMs). Existing para-virtualized …

A runtime-enabled p4 extension to the open vswitch packet processing pipeline

T Osiński, H Tarasiuk, P Chaignon… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hypervisor switch, such as Open vSwitch (OVS), plays a key role in the virtualized data
centers implementing overlay networking to provide network isolation. The hypervisor switch …

P4rt-OVS: Programming Protocol-Independent, Runtime Extensions for Open vSwitch with P4

T Osiński, H Tarasiuk, P Chaignon… - 2020 IFIP Networking …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtualized data centers implement overlay networking to provide network isolation. The key
component that makes the overlay networking possible is a hypervisor switch, such as Open …

Performance benchmarking of state-of-the-art software switches for NFV

T Zhang, L Linguaglossa, P Giaccone, L Iannone… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
With the ultimate goal of replacing proprietary hardware appliances with Virtual Network
Functions (VNFs) implemented in software, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has …

Integrated SDN-NFV 5G network performance and management-complexity evaluation

N Surantha, NA Putra - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
Digitalization is one of the factors that affects the acceleration of the application of
telecommunications technologies such as 5G. The 5G technology that has been developed …

OpenPATH: Application aware high-performance software-defined switching framework

P Krishnan, S Duttagupta, R Buyya - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, core networking architecture is facing disruptive developments, due to the
emergence of SDN for control, NFV for services and so on. SDN promises more versatility in …