Towards a GPU SDN controller

Eduard G. Renart, Eddy Z. Zhang, Badri Nath

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Abstract

The SDN concept of separating and centralizing the control plane from the data plane has provided more flexibility and programmability to the deployment of the networks. On the other hand, the separation of the planes has raised some scalability and performance questions, being that the SDN controller is the bottleneck. In this paper we present an implementation of a GPU SDN controller. The goal of this paper is to mitigate the scalability problem of the SDN controller by offloading all the packet inspection and creation to the GPU. Experimental evaluation shows that the controller is able to process 17 Million packets/s using off-the-shelf GPU's.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Conference on Networked Systems, NetSys 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479958047
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 17 2015
Event2nd International Conference on Networked Systems, NetSys 2015 - Cottbus, Germany
Duration: Mar 9 2015Mar 12 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Networked Systems, NetSys 2015

Other

Other2nd International Conference on Networked Systems, NetSys 2015
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityCottbus
Period3/9/153/12/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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