Assisting Network Intrusion Detection with Reconfigurable Hardware
FCCM '02 Proceedings of the 10th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Dynamically Extensible Router
DANCE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition
In VINI veritas: realistic and controlled network experimentation
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
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
The shunt: an FPGA-based accelerator for network intrusion prevention
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/SIGDA 15th international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
Cashmere: resilient anonymous routing
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Tor: the second-generation onion router
SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
Optimizing network virtualization in Xen
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007
Supercharging planetlab: a high performance, multi-application, overlay network platform
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Experimenting with buffer sizes in routers
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for networking and communications systems
Virtualizing the data plane through source code merging
Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Programmable routers for extensible services of tomorrow
Virtual routers on the move: live router migration as a network-management primitive
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
CAFE: a configurable packet forwarding engine for data center networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Programmable routers for extensible services of tomorrow
Building a fast, virtualized data plane with programmable hardware
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Virtualized infrastructure systems and architectures
PdP: parallelizing data plane in virtual network substrate
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Virtualized infrastructure systems and architectures
A Packet Generator on the NetFPGA Platform
FCCM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 17th IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Customizing virtual networks with partial FPGA reconfiguration
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Virtualized infrastructure systems and architectures
Customizing virtual networks with partial FPGA reconfiguration
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Memory-efficient and scalable virtual routers using FPGA
Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
Network virtualization substrate with parallelized data plane
Computer Communications
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
vPF_RING: towards wire-speed network monitoring using virtual machines
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Building a flexible and scalable virtual hardware data plane
IFIP'12 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part I
A comprehensive performance analysis of virtual routers on FPGA
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) - Special Section on 19th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2012)
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Recent virtual network implementations have shown the capability to implement multiple network data planes using a shared hardware substrate. In this project, a new scalable virtual networking data plane is demonstrated which combines the performance efficiency of FPGA hardware with the flexibility of software running on a commodity PC. Multiple virtual router data planes are implemented using a Virtex II-based NetFPGA card to accommodate virtual networks requiring superior packet forwarding performance. Numerous additional data planes for virtual networks which require less bandwidth and slower forwarding speeds are implemented on a commodity PC server via software routers. Through experimentation, we determine that a throughput improvement of up to two orders of magnitude can be achieved for FPGA-based virtual routers versus a software-based virtual router implementation. Dynamic FPGA reconfiguration is supported to adapt to changing networking needs. System scalability is demonstrated for up to 15 virtual routers.