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Balancing Performance and Flexibility with Hardware Support for Network Architectures by Ilija Hadžić; Jonathan M. Smith is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Balancing Performance and Flexibility with Hardware Support for Network Architectures about?
The goals of performance and flexibility are often at odds in the design of network systems. The tension is common enough to justify an architectural solution, rather than a set of context-specific solutions. The Programmable Protocol Processing Pipeline (P4) design uses programmable hardware to selectively accelerate protocol processing functions. A set of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and an associated library of network processing modules implemented in hardware are augmented with software support for function selection and composition, and applied to processing-intensive portions of a user-programmable protocol stack. The system is sufficiently flexible to support protocol stacks that are dynamically altered in reaction to changing network conditions or user needs.The P4 can be transparently inserted into a conventional protocol architecture, such as that of TCP/IP. This experimental demonstration shows that the P4's programmability can be used to significantly improve the performance of TCP/IP under operating conditions where the protocol would perform poorly without augmentation. Generalizing from these experiments, the P4 is shown to have many applications as an ope
Who reads Balancing Performance and Flexibility with Hardware Support for Network Architectures?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.
- Author
- Ilija Hadžić; Jonathan M. Smith
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)