SnabbSwitch user space virtual switch benchmark and performance optimization for NFV

Paolino, Michele; Nikolaev, Nikolay; Fanguede, Jeremy; Raho, Daniel

doi:10.1109/nfv-sdn.2015.7387411

Cited by 41 publications

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“…Solutions in the first category include Open vSwitch (OVS) [22], a hypervisor offload solution [23], and SnabbSwitch [24]. Solutions in the second category include the Click modular router [13], RouteBricks [25], PacketShader [26], Lagopus [27], [28] and ScaleBricks [29].…”

Section: Software Switches/routersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…SnabbSwitch [24] is an open-source user-space virtual switch for the KVM hypervisor, implemented in Lua, which is a scripting language that was proposed in 1993 and has evolved to support applications in many domains [34]. It adds two innovations to the field of virtual switches: LuaJIT, which is a high-performance implementation of Lua, and vhost-user, which allows VMs to send network traffic directly to a user-space virtual switch such as SnabbSwitch, without passing through the kernel.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Network Function Virtualization: A Survey

Veeraraghavan

Sato

Buchanan

et al. 2017

IEICE Trans. Commun.

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SUMMARYThe objectives of this survey are to provide an in-depth coverage of a few selected research papers that have made significant contributions to the development of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and to provide readers insights into the key advantages and disadvantages of NFV and Software Defined Networks (SDN) when compared to traditional networks. The research papers covered are classified into four categories: NFV Infrastructure (NFVI), Network Functions (NFs), Management And Network Orchestration (MANO), and service chaining. The NFVI papers describe "framework" software that implement common functions, such as dynamic scaling and load balancing, required by NF developers. Papers on NFs are classified as offering solutions for software switches or middleboxes. MANO papers covered in this survey are primarily on resource allocation (virtual network embedding), which is an orchestrator function. Finally, service chaining papers that offer examples and extensions are reviewed. Our conclusions are that with the current level of investment in NFV from cloud and Internet service providers, the promised cost savings are likely to be realized, though many challenges remain.

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Section: Software Switches/routersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Snabbswitchmentioning

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Network Function Virtualization: A Survey

Veeraraghavan

Sato

Buchanan

et al. 2017

IEICE Trans. Commun.

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“…As a result, such tools are widely employed by NFV platforms as dataplane to flexibly steer traffic. For example, the Snabb NFV project [4] proposes an NFV framework based on OpenStack and snabb switch [5]. Metron [6] extends FastClick [7] for traffic steering.…”

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“…While interest in software switches is soaring, the relative merits of different proposals are still not well-understood in the absence of comprehensive, comparative performance analysis. It is indeed a daunting task to perform such an evaluation [14], and most published comparisons relate to a small number of switch proposals [15], [16] or execute a limited number of test scenarios [5]. The objective of our work is to propose a methodology for comparing switch performance in terms of essential metrics like throughput and latency.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The contribution of our work is twofold: (i) we describe our proposed experimental methodology for a fair evaluation and comparison of software switch performance; (ii) we apply our methodology to evaluate the performance of seven state-of-the-art software switches, namely Open vSwitch DPDK (OvS-DPDK) [18], FastClick [7], Berkeley Extensible Software Switch (BESS) [10], netmap suite [3], [13], [19], [20], Snabb [5], t4p4s [21], and FD.io VPP [22]. We start by analyzing the design space of these frameworks to build a basic understanding of their respective designs.…”

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Comparing the performance of state-of-the-art software switches for NFV

Zhang

Linguaglossa

Gallo

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies

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With the ultimate goal of replacing proprietary hardware appliances with Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) implemented in software, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been gaining popularity in the past few years. Software switches route traffic between VNFs and physical Network Interface Cards (NICs). It is of paramount importance to compare the performance of different switch designs and architectures. In this paper, we propose a methodology to compare fairly and comprehensively the performance of software switches. We first explore the design spaces of seven state-of-the-art software switches and then compare their performance under four representative test scenarios. Each scenario corresponds to a specific case of routing NFV traffic between NICs and/or VNFs. In our experiments, we evaluate the throughput and latency between VNFs in two of the most popular virtualization environments, namely virtual machines (VMs) and containers. Our experimental results show that no single software switch prevails in all scenarios. It is, therefore, crucial to choose the most suitable solution for the given use case. At the same time, the presented results and analysis provide a deeper insight into the design tradeoffs and identifies potential performance bottlenecks that could inspire new designs.

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The emergence of operator‐neutral small cells as a strong case for cloud computing at the mobile edge

Giannoulakis

Kafetzakis²,

Trajkovska

et al. 2016

Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech.

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Small cells have emerged as a useful tool for supporting increased network capacity through network densification, but they can also be used to support edge cloud computing services. In this paper, we provide a preview of an innovative concept that tackles the consolidation of multi‐tenancy in such type communications infrastructures, as well as the placement of network intelligence and applications in the network edge. After surveing the challenges and the enabling technologies, we present the envisaged architecture to manage and control the Cloud‐Enabled Small Cell infrastructure. Also, at the operation level, we explain the potential advantages of adopting the proposed solutions on the long‐term evolution access networks. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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SnabbSwitch user space virtual switch benchmark and performance optimization for NFV

Cited by 41 publications

References 13 publications

Network Function Virtualization: A Survey

Network Function Virtualization: A Survey

Comparing the performance of state-of-the-art software switches for NFV

The emergence of operator‐neutral small cells as a strong case for cloud computing at the mobile edge

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