Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
In VINI veritas: realistic and controlled network experimentation
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
How to lease the internet in your spare time
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Operating system support for planetary-scale network services
NSDI'04 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 1
NetFPGA--An Open Platform for Gigabit-Rate Network Switching and Routing
MSE '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education
Supercharging planetlab: a high performance, multi-application, overlay network platform
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Accountable internet protocol (aip)
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Trellis: a platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
An open router virtualization framework using a programmable forwarding plane
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
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Network virtualization allows many networks to share the same underlying physical topology; this technology has offered promise both for experimentation and for hosting multiple networks on a single shared physical infrastructure. Much attention has focused on virtualizing the network control plane, but, ultimately, a limiting factor in the deployment of these virtual networks is data-plane performance: Virtual networks must ultimately forward packets at rates that are comparable to native, hardware-based approaches. Aside from proprietary solutions from vendors, hardware support for virtualized data planes is limited. The advent of open, programmable network hardware promises flexibility, speed, and resource isolation, but, unfortunately, hardware does not naturally lend itself to virtualization. We leverage emerging trends in programmable hardware to design a flexible, hardware-based data plane for virtual networks. We present the design, implementation, and preliminary evaluation of this hardware-based data plane and show how the proposed design can support many virtual networks without compromising performance or isolation.