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G. Ara, T. Cucinotta, L. Abeni, C. Vitucci. "Comparative Evaluation of Kernel Bypass Mechanisms for High-Performance Inter-Container Communications," in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2020), May 7-9, 2020, Prague, Czech Republic. Best Paper Award

Abstract

This work presents a framework for evaluating the performance of various virtual switching solutions, each widely adopted on Linux to provide virtual network connectivity to containers in high-performance scenarios, like in Network Function Virtualization (NFV). We present results from the use of this framework for the quantitative comparison of the performance of software-based and hardware-accelerated virtual switches on a real platform with respect to a number of key metrics, namely network throughput, latency and scalability.

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G. Ara, L. Lai, T. Cucinotta, L. Abeni, C. Vitucci. "A Framework for Comparative Evaluation of High-Performance Virtualized Networking Mechanisms," in 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2020), Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Vol. 1399, Springer, Cham.

Abstract

This paper presents an extension to a software framework designed to evaluate the efficiency of different software and hardware-accelerated virtual switches, each commonly adopted on Linux to provide virtual network connectivity to containers in high-performance scenarios, like in Network Function Virtualization (NFV). We present results from the use of our tools, showing the performance of multiple high-performance networking frameworks on a specific platform, comparing the collected data for various key metrics, namely throughput, latency and scalability, with respect to the required computational power.

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18 March 2024