%0 Journal Article %1 info3-article-2019-1 %A Linguaglossa, Leonardo %A Lange, Stanislav %A Pontarelli, Salvatore %A Retvari, Gabor %A Rossi, Dario %A Zinner, Thomas %A Bificulo, Roberto %A Jarschel, Michael %A Bianchi, Giuseppe %D 2019 %J Proceedings of the IEEE %K myown sendate sendate-planets ngn %T Survey of Performance Acceleration Techniques for Network Function Virtualization %X The ongoing network softwarization trend holds the promise to revolutionize network infrastructures by making them more flexible, reconfigurable, portable, and more adaptive than ever. Still, the migration from hard-coded/hardwired network functions towards their software-programmable counterparts comes along with the need for tailored optimizations and acceleration techniques, so as to avoid, or at least mitigate, the throughput/latency performance degradation with respect to fixed function network elements. The contribution of this article is twofold. First, we provide a comprehensive overview of the host-based Network Function Virtualization (NFV) ecosystem, covering a broad range of techniques, from low level hardware acceleration and bump-in-the-wire offloading approaches, to high-level software acceleration solutions, including the virtualization technique itself. Second, we derive guidelines regarding the design, development, and operation of NFV-based deployments that meet the flexibility and scalability requirements of modern communication networks.

@article{info3-article-2019-1, abstract = {The ongoing network softwarization trend holds the promise to revolutionize network infrastructures by making them more flexible, reconfigurable, portable, and more adaptive than ever. Still, the migration from hard-coded/hardwired network functions towards their software-programmable counterparts comes along with the need for tailored optimizations and acceleration techniques, so as to avoid, or at least mitigate, the throughput/latency performance degradation with respect to fixed function network elements. The contribution of this article is twofold. First, we provide a comprehensive overview of the host-based Network Function Virtualization (NFV) ecosystem, covering a broad range of techniques, from low level hardware acceleration and bump-in-the-wire offloading approaches, to high-level software acceleration solutions, including the virtualization technique itself. Second, we derive guidelines regarding the design, development, and operation of NFV-based deployments that meet the flexibility and scalability requirements of modern communication networks. }, added-at = {2019-01-24T10:55:01.000+0100}, author = {Linguaglossa, Leonardo and Lange, Stanislav and Pontarelli, Salvatore and Retvari, Gabor and Rossi, Dario and Zinner, Thomas and Bificulo, Roberto and Jarschel, Michael and Bianchi, Giuseppe}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21e58757616b9bc4d1f18c033730d27e9/uniwue_info3}, interhash = {3676bb775014f1cfe664d88886437e2f}, intrahash = {1e58757616b9bc4d1f18c033730d27e9}, journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE}, keywords = {myown sendate sendate-planets ngn}, month = {1}, timestamp = {2022-03-14T00:08:46.000+0100}, title = {Survey of Performance Acceleration Techniques for Network Function Virtualization}, year = 2019 }