P4SC: A High Performance and Flexible Framework for Service Function Chain

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950446

	P4SC: A High Performance and Flexible Framework for Service Function Chain
	Zhang, Dong 1; Chen, Xiang 1; Huang, Qun 2; Hong, Xiaoyan 3; Wu, Chunming 4; Zhou, Haifeng 4; Yang, Yi 1,5; Liu, Hongyan 1; Chen, Yuxin 1
	2019
发表期刊	IEEE ACCESS
ISSN	2169-3536
卷号	7 页码:160982-160997
摘要	Network function virtualization allows network functions to be implemented and managed flexibly as a service function chain (SFC) in the data plane to process flows. However, software-based SFCs lead to poor performance compared to proprietary middleboxes. Moreover, existing solutions tackling performance issues suffer from the development complexity incurred by hardware details. To address these problems, we leverage both the high performance of P4-capable devices and the high flexibility of P4 language. In this paper, we present a P4 Service Chaining framework (P4SC), which tackles multiple challenges for P4 to support the SFC implementation. P4SC provides a suite of primitives allowing efficient SFC expression, and a converter and a generator converting input SFC requests to the corresponding P4 program. Here, an algorithm based on longest common subsequence (LCS) is used to allow simultaneously implementing multiple SFCs. Moreover, P4SC offers a runtime manager for flexible SFC management at runtime. It also provides an automatic integration mechanism to integrate P4-based NFs into P4SC. We implement a P4SC prototype, which supports three types of P4-capable devices. The experimental results show that P4SC outperforms state of the arts with orders-of-magnitude SFC performance improvement while maintains high flexibility.
关键词	Performance evaluation Runtime Noise measurement Hardware Network function virtualization Generators Research and development Network function virtualization service function chain P4 software defined networking
DOI	10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950446
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key Research and Development Program of China[2016YFB0800201] ; National Key Research and Development Program of China[2017YFB0803205] ; Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province[2017C01064] ; Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province[2018C01008] ; Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province[2018C03052] ; Major Scientific Project of Zhejiang Laboratory[2018FD0ZX01] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Pioneer Hundred Talents Program ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61802365] ; National Science Foundation[1719062] ; Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province[2018J01796]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications
WOS类目	Computer Science, Information Systems ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Telecommunications
WOS记录号	WOS:000497167600163
出版者	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
引用统计	被引频次：7[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/14280
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Huang, Qun
作者单位	1.Fuzhou Univ, Coll Math & Comp Sci, Fuzhou 350108, Fujian, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Univ Alabama, Dept Comp Sci, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA 4.Zhejiang Univ, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 5.Ruijie Networks Co Ltd, Res & Dev Inst, Fuzhou 350100, Fujian, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Dong,Chen, Xiang,Huang, Qun,et al. P4SC: A High Performance and Flexible Framework for Service Function Chain[J]. IEEE ACCESS,2019,7:160982-160997.
APA	Zhang, Dong.,Chen, Xiang.,Huang, Qun.,Hong, Xiaoyan.,Wu, Chunming.,...&Chen, Yuxin.(2019).P4SC: A High Performance and Flexible Framework for Service Function Chain.IEEE ACCESS,7,160982-160997.
MLA	Zhang, Dong,et al."P4SC: A High Performance and Flexible Framework for Service Function Chain".IEEE ACCESS 7(2019):160982-160997.