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Presentation 2017-03-03 11:00
A Study and Evaluation of Inter-VM Communication for High Performance and Flexible Service Function Chaining
Yasufumi Ogawa, Tetsurou Nakamura, Naoki Takada, Hiroyuki Nakamura (NTT) NS2016-201
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(in English) Service Function Chaining (SFC) provides the ability to define an ordered list of network services. It’s supposed to be consist of service function on several virtual machines in NFV (Network Function Virtualization). SFC is one of the most important feature of NFV which is for flexible service deployment, but most of service providers don’t enthusiastic to adopt SFC actually because bottleneck of Inter-VM communication (IVC) is critical for their service quality. For realizing SFC based services, it’s required to improve performance of IVC. In this paper, we suggest Soft Patch Panel (SPP) which is a new approach based on Intel DPDK to satisfy both of requirements of performance and flexibility. Currently, SPP only support 1:1 communication and it’s inadequate to cover several use cases such as load balancing or redundancy of service entities which require N:N communication. In general, duplication of packet causes degradation of performance because of the cost of data copy. However, N:N communication enables users to configure more variety of network services even if performance is degraded. As an extension, we have studied to design and implement N:N communication on SPP. In this report, we also report design and evaluation of the feature. SPP is the fruits of collaboration of NTT and Intel.
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(in English) NFV / Service Chaining / Inter-VM Communication / Network Virtualization / L2 / DPDK / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 116, no. 484, NS2016-201, pp. 253-258, March 2017.
Paper # NS2016-201 
Date of Issue 2017-02-23 (NS) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee NS IN  
Conference Date 2017-03-02 - 2017-03-03 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) OKINAWA ZANPAMISAKI ROYAL HOTEL 
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Conference Code 2017-03-NS-IN 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) A Study and Evaluation of Inter-VM Communication for High Performance and Flexible Service Function Chaining 
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Keyword(1) NFV  
Keyword(2) Service Chaining  
Keyword(3) Inter-VM Communication  
Keyword(4) Network Virtualization  
Keyword(5) L2  
Keyword(6) DPDK  
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1st Author's Name Yasufumi Ogawa  
1st Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
2nd Author's Name Tetsurou Nakamura  
2nd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
3rd Author's Name Naoki Takada  
3rd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
4th Author's Name Hiroyuki Nakamura  
4th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
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Date Time 2017-03-03 11:00:00 
Presentation Time 20 minutes 
Registration for NS 
Paper # NS2016-201 
Volume (vol) vol.116 
Number (no) no.484 
Page pp.253-258 
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Date of Issue 2017-02-23 (NS) 


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