DUAN Tong, LAN Ju-long, HU Yu-xiang, et al. A Reconfigurable Dataplane Enabling Network Function Evolution[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2016, 44(7): 1721-1727.
DOI:
DUAN Tong, LAN Ju-long, HU Yu-xiang, et al. A Reconfigurable Dataplane Enabling Network Function Evolution[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2016, 44(7): 1721-1727. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2016.07.029.
A Reconfigurable Dataplane Enabling Network Function Evolution
The traditional network system is difficult to adapt to the development of the Internet in some aspects such as security
QoS (Quality of Service) guarantee
and traffic scheduling.But emerging network architectures like SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NDN (Named Data Networking) are limited in the experiment and deployment of new functions based on the inflexible circuits of traditional network devices like routers and switches.This paper is devoted to dealing with this problem.Firstly
we design a reconfigurable network dataplane to enable network function evolution.The dataplane uses configure units to program the parser
match tables and action processor
which enables the deployment of customized functions.Secondly
we propose tree-based parser-mapping and match-mapping algorithms to map user-defined network functions to hardware.Finally
we implement a NetFPGA10G-based prototype of RDFE which achieves higher forwarding rate and lower resource utilization compared with Kangroo
EPC (Elastic Protocol Customizable) and LabelCast programmble dataplanes.