Enabling active flow manipulation in silicon-based network forwarding engines

Lavian, T.; Wang, Phil; Travostino, F.; Subramanian, S.; Hoang, Doan B.; Sethaput, V.; Culler, David

doi:10.1109/jcn.2001.6596879

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“…Serviter Oplets are of similar concept to those of Openet's ORE [26], however the structure has been greatly extended in Serviter to enable resource requirement specification, hardware requirement specification, service discovery, automatic dependency fulfilment, and to support statefull services. The Oplets were extended by adding a User Service Descriptor that specifies identity and version information, and the matching criteria for the service discovery process.…”

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Serviter: A service-oriented programmable network platform for shared infrastructure

Yousef

Hoang

Rogers

2006

Computer Communications

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“…The Openet project [27] targets the deployment of the Oplet Runtime Environment onto the Nortel Networks range of commercial platforms [26]. The ORE provides deployment and execution mechanisms for user services onto the platform's control plane.…”

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Serviter: A service-oriented programmable network platform for shared infrastructure

Yousef

Hoang

Rogers

2006

Computer Communications

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“…Another effort [12] defined an interface on a Nortel router by which processing (e.g. encryption) for particular flows could be configured and turned on and off under user control.…”

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Challenges in Implementing an ESP Service

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Abstract. Although active network services have been widely studied, the task of mapping these services and algorithms onto actual network hardware presents an additional set of challenges. For example, high-end routers and switches are designed to handle as many interfaces delivering packets at wire speed as possible; in such an environment decentralized processing, pipelining, and efficient synchronization are crucial for good performance. At the low end (e.g. small routers/firewalls for the home), cost and flexibility are paramount; such systems are often structured as a general-purpose processor running modular software. Thus, the two environments are different and have different goals and objectives. We present a case study based on a representative active service called Ephemeral State Processing (ESP) that highlights many of the issues that arise when mapping services to real hardware. We discuss engineering considerations for ESP in both low-end uniprocessor and higher-end network processor scenarios, and present performance measurements from both implementations.

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“…[9] Accordingly, we implemented and tested both the functionality of A-BOX and its throughput. Figure 5 shows a diagram of A-BOX as implemented.…”

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A multihoming application flow network using "A-BOX": a fast packet processing node featuring direct traffic monitoring

Hashimoto¹,

Murooka²,

Miyazaki³

2004

2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37577)

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This paper proposes a novel IP multihoming scheme in which fast packet processing nodes switch and distribute the traffic on an application flow basis. The newly developed node, called A-BOX, classifies each incoming packet up to the layer 4(L4) or L7(payload) header, edits it as necessary, and forwards it to an outgoing port according to the header's entry. The NATlike sandwiched path formed between A-BOXs acts like one path defined for an application flow, and so suits applications that have QoS(Quality of Service) requirements. A-BOX realizes wire rate forwarding by applying hardware techniques including FPGAs. A-BOX can measure the traffic on a real time basis for each flow and distribute the flow to achieve the application's requirements. The software interface of A-BOX means that the network can be transparently controlled for each application flow. We clarify the feasibility of A-BOX's basic methods, which include network condition monitoring via individual flow with huge background traffic, switching a specified flow in the multihoming condition, and traffic sharing/bandwidth aggregation.

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Enabling active flow manipulation in silicon-based network forwarding engines

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Serviter: A service-oriented programmable network platform for shared infrastructure

Serviter: A service-oriented programmable network platform for shared infrastructure

Challenges in Implementing an ESP Service

A multihoming application flow network using "A-BOX": a fast packet processing node featuring direct traffic monitoring

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