DPICO: a high speed deep packet inspection engine using compact finite automata
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for networking and communications systems
NetFPGA: reusable router architecture for experimental research
Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Programmable routers for extensible services of tomorrow
Towards a next generation data center architecture: scalability and commoditization
Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Programmable routers for extensible services of tomorrow
A scalable, commodity data center network architecture
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Dcell: a scalable and fault-tolerant network structure for data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
BCube: a high performance, server-centric network architecture for modular data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
BCube: a high performance, server-centric network architecture for modular data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
Scalable network virtualization using FPGAs
Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
ReClick - A Modular Dataplane Design Framework for FPGA-Based Network Virtualization
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM/IEEE Seventh Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
NetBump: user-extensible active queue management with bumps on the wire
Proceedings of the eighth ACM/IEEE symposium on Architectures for networking and communications systems
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Recently, Data Center Networking (DCN) has attracted many research attentions and innovative DCN designs have been proposed [1, 2]. All these designs need specialized packet forwarding engines due to their special routing algorithms, which are either based on commonly used packet headers or self-defined ones. Although programmable forwarding devices are available, it is difficult to use them to prototype these DCN designs, especially when self-defined headers are introduced. In this paper, we present a hardware based Configurable pAcket Forwarding Engine (CAFE) to facilitate the prototyping process. Through simple APIs, CAFE can be easily configured to forward self-defined packets, modify, insert, and delete arbitrary packet header fields without re-designing the hardware. We have implemented CAFE using NetFPGA. Evaluation demonstrates that CAFE can be easily configured and it can forward packets at line-rate.