A platform for high performance and flexible virtual routers on commodity hardware

Authors :: Adam Greenhalgh
Laurent Mathy
Mickael Hoerdt
Felipe Huici
Norbert Egi
Mark Handley
Panagiotis Papadimitriou
Source :: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 40:127-128
Publication Year :: 2010
Publisher :: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2010.
Abstract: Multi-core CPUs, along with recent advances in memory and buses, render commodity hardware a strong candidate for software router virtualization. In this context, we present the design of a new platform for virtual routers on modern PC hardware. We further discuss our design choices in order to achieve both high performance and flexibility for packet processing.

Subjects :: Flexibility (engineering)
Router
Computer Networks and Communications
Full virtualization
Computer science
business.industry
Packet processing
Context (language use)
Virtualization
computer.software_genre
Order (exchange)
Embedded system
Information system
business
computer
Software

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