FlowOS: a pure flow-based vision of network traffic

  • Authors:

  • Abdul Alim;Mehdi Bezahaf;Laurent Mathy

  • Affiliations:

  • Computing Dept., Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;Computing Dept., Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the eighth ACM/IEEE symposium on Architectures for networking and communications systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The original Internet architecture lacked the concept of a flow, and considered each traffic as a set of packets. In this short paper, we rethink this concept inside middlebox-based platform and handle each traffic as a whole block instead of packets. We design a whole system where each input packet matching some criteria is placed in a specific structure which is shared between all processing modules that interact in a parallel manner with this flow. Thus, this new design improves flexibility of traffic and also increases the flow processing performances.