Abstract
With the rapid evolution of network technologies over recent years, emerging network services, especially industrial control networks, video conferencing, intelligent driving, and other scenarios, have put forward higher demand for the low-latency forwarding of network traffic. The existing flow caching and hardware acceleration methods only improve the overall forwarding performance of data-plane devices but cannot separate the forwarding process of low-latency traffic from others to reflect the priority of these flows. In this paper, we extend the POF southbound interface protocol and propose a marking method for low-latency flows, based on which we design a composite pipeline to achieve fast processing for low-latency traffic by introducing a fast-forwarding path. The experiments show that the fast path has a higher forwarding capability than the MAT pipeline in the POF Switch and can reduce the forwarding delay of low-latency flows by 62–68%. In a real network environment with a mixed traffic simulation, the reduction reaches 17–20% with no delay increment for the non-low-latency part.
Funder
Strategic Leadership Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
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