Performance measurement using dpdk in software-defined local and wide area networks

  • Authors

    • Ki hyeon Kim
    • Dongkyun Kim
    • Yong Hwan Kim
    • Joobum Kim
    2018-04-03
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.12.11105
  • Open Virtual Switch, OVS, Data Plane Development KIT, DPDK, SDN, NFV, Kreonet-S

  • Background/Objectives: For data center-based enterprises, the use of data traffic continues to increase. As a result, the increasingly efficient processing of increasing data traffic is becoming a major issue. Effective processing of traffic can be performed through the addition of physical network equipment, but this requires considerable costs.

    Methods/Statistical analysis: To solve this problem, researches on server virtualization and network virtualization technology are being actively conducted. However, while network virtualization is a cost-effective solution, open-source virtual switches used in network virtualization technologies have the performance penalty because they handle packets at the kernel of server's operating system. As a result, the Intel has developed the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) technology to address the performance degradation of the operating system.

    Findings: In this paper, we propose the DPDK performance test environment based on Open Virtual Switch (OVS) to verify the stability and performance of the DPDK-oriented virtualization technology, in association with a new KREONET-S project which aims tothe softwarization of the Korea Research Environment Open Network (KREONET) infrastructure.

    Improvements/Applications: We perform conducted experiments on Software-Defined Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) environment using KREONET-S show the result.

     

     

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    hyeon Kim, K., Kim, D., Hwan Kim, Y., & Kim, J. (2018). Performance measurement using dpdk in software-defined local and wide area networks. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.12), 119-123. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.12.11105