Presentation 2018-12-06
Transparent Acceleration Method for Network Function Virtualization Using FPGA
Yoshikazu Watanabe, Yuki Kobayashi, Takashi Takenaka, Baba Hiroshi,
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Abstract(in English) Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is becoming a new networking architecture for telecom carriers. While NFV realizes network functions with software and commercial off the shelf (COTS) servers instead of dedicated hardware, the performance of the software could be bottleneck. This paper proposes a method for accelerating NFV application with FPGA transparently. The method leverages a CPU-FPGA tightly coupled architecture. We report the result of implementation and evaluation of vCPE acceleration on a CPU+FPGA evaluation platform.
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Keyword(in English) FPGA / Network Function Virtualization / NFV / CPU-FPGA Tightly Coupled Architecture
Paper # RECONF2018-38
Date of Issue 2018-11-28 (RECONF)

Conference Information
Committee VLD / DC / CPSY / RECONF / CPM / ICD / IE / IPSJ-SLDM / IPSJ-EMB / IPSJ-ARC
Conference Date 2018/12/5(3days)
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Place (in English) Satellite Campus Hiroshima
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Topics (in English) Design Gaia 2018 -New Field of VLSI Design-
Chair Noriyuki Minegishi(Mitsubishi Electric) / Satoshi Fukumoto(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Koji Nakano(Hiroshima Univ.) / Masato Motomura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Fumihiko Hirose(Yamagata Univ.) / Hideto Hidaka(Renesas) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Yutaka Tamiya(Fujitsu Laboratories) / 渡辺 晴美(東海大) / 井上 弘士(九大)
Vice Chair Nozomu Togawa(Waseda Univ.) / Hiroshi Takahashi(Ehime Univ.) / Hidetsugu Irie(Univ. of Tokyo) / Takashi Miyoshi(Fujitsu) / Yuichiro Shibata(Nagasaki Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(RIKEN) / Mayumi Takeyama(Kitami Inst. of Tech.) / Makoto Nagata(Kobe Univ.) / Hideaki Kimata(NTT) / Kazuya Kodama(NII)
Secretary Nozomu Togawa(NTT) / Hiroshi Takahashi(Aizu Univ.) / Hidetsugu Irie(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Takashi Miyoshi(Nihon Univ.) / Yuichiro Shibata(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(Hokkaido Univ.) / Mayumi Takeyama(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Makoto Nagata(e-trees.Japan) / Hideaki Kimata(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) / Kazuya Kodama(NTT) / (Panasonic) / (Tohoku Univ.) / (KDDI Research)
Assistant / / Yasuaki Ito(Hiroshima Univ.) / Tomoaki Tsumura(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Yuuki Kobayashi(NEC) / Hiroki Nakahara(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yasuo Kimura(Tokyo Univ. of Tech.) / Hideki Nakazawa(Hirosaki Univ.) / Tomoaki Terasako(Ehime Univ.) / Hiroyuki Ito(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Masatoshi Tsuge(Socionext) / Tetsuya Hirose(Kobe Univ.) / Kazuya Hayase(NTT) / Yasutaka Matsuo(NHK) / Hiroe Iwasaki(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies / Technical Committee on Dependable Computing / Technical Committee on Computer Systems / Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Systems / Technical Committee on Component Parts and Materials / Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Special Interest Group on System and LSI Design Methodology / Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems / Special Interest Group on System Architecture
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Title (in English) Transparent Acceleration Method for Network Function Virtualization Using FPGA
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) FPGA
Keyword(2) Network Function Virtualization
Keyword(3) NFV
Keyword(4) CPU-FPGA Tightly Coupled Architecture
1st Author's Name Yoshikazu Watanabe
1st Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC)
2nd Author's Name Yuki Kobayashi
2nd Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC)
3rd Author's Name Takashi Takenaka
3rd Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC)
4th Author's Name Baba Hiroshi
4th Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC)
Date 2018-12-06
Paper # RECONF2018-38
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) RECONF-340
Page pp.pp.21-26(RECONF),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-11-28 (RECONF)