Designing a Platform for Flexible and Performant Virtual Routers on Commodity Hardware

[en] Multi-core CPUs, along with recent advances in memory and buses, render commodity hardware a strong candidate for software router virtualization. In this context, we present the design of a new platform for virtual routers on x86 hardware. We also elaborate on our design choices in order to achieve both high performance and flexibility for packet processing.

Disciplines :

Computer science

Author, co-author :

Egi, Norbert; Lancaster University

Greenhalgh, Adam; University College London - UCL

Handley, Mark; University College London - UCL

Hoerdt, Mickael; Lancaster University

Huici, Felipe; NEC Europe

Mathy, Laurent ; Lancaster University

Papadimitriou, Panagiotis; Lancaster University

Language :

English

Title :

Designing a Platform for Flexible and Performant Virtual Routers on Commodity Hardware

Publication date :

March 2009

Journal title :

Electronic Communications of the EASST

ISSN :

1863-2122

Publisher :

European Association of Software Science and Technology, United Kingdom

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst/article/view/222

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