{"id":879,"date":"2018-04-30T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tombarbette.be\/?p=879"},"modified":"2020-01-06T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:35:24","slug":"our-nsdi-paper-metron-nfv-service-chains-at-the-true-speed-of-the-underlying-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/our-nsdi-paper-metron-nfv-service-chains-at-the-true-speed-of-the-underlying-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Our latest paper &#8220;Metron: NFV Service Chains at the True Speed of the Underlying Hardware&#8221; has been accepted at NSDI 2018 !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this paper we present Metron, a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that achieves high resource utilization by jointly exploiting the underlying network and commodity servers\u2019 resources. This synergy allows Metron to: (<em>i<\/em>) offload part of the packet processing logic to the network, (<em>ii<\/em>) use smart tagging to setup and exploit the affinity of traffic classes, and (<em>iii<\/em>) use tag-based hardware dispatching to carry out the remaining packet processing at the speed of the servers\u2019 fastest cache(s), with zero intercore communication. Metron also introduces a novel resource allocation scheme that minimizes the resource allocation overhead for large-scale NFV deployments. With commodity hardware assistance, Metron deeply inspects traffic at 40 Gbps and realizes stateful network functions at the speed of a 100 GbE network card on a single server. Metron has 2.75-6.5x better efficiency than OpenBox, a state of the art NFV system, while ensuring key requirements such as elasticity, fine-grained load balancing, and flexible traffic steering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/node\/211264\">Paper, slides &amp; video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract In this paper we present Metron, a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that achieves high resource utilization by jointly exploiting the underlying network and commodity servers\u2019 resources. 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