| Presentation | 2017-03-03 A Study and Evaluation of Inter-VM Communication for High Performance and Flexible Service Function Chaining Yasufumi Ogawa, Tetsurou Nakamura, Naoki Takada, Hiroyuki Nakamura, |
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| Abstract(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. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | NFVService ChainingInter-VM CommunicationNetwork VirtualizationL2DPDK |
| Paper # | NS2016-201 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-02-23 (NS) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | NS / IN |
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| Conference Date | 2017/3/2(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | OKINAWA ZANPAMISAKI ROYAL HOTEL |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | General |
| Chair | Hideki Tode(Osaka Pref. Univ.) / Katsunori Yamaoka(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) |
| Vice Chair | Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT) / Takuji Kishida(NTT) |
| Secretary | Yoshikatsu Okazaki(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Takuji Kishida(NTT) |
| Assistant | Shohei Kamamura(NTT) / Kunitake Kaneko(Keio Univ.) / Takashi Natsume(NTT) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Information Networks |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | A Study and Evaluation of Inter-VM Communication for High Performance and Flexible Service Function Chaining |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | NFVService ChainingInter-VM CommunicationNetwork VirtualizationL2DPDK |
| 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) |
| Date | 2017-03-03 |
| Paper # | NS2016-201 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.116 |
| Number (no) | NS-484 |
| Page | pp.pp.253-258(NS), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-02-23 (NS) |