TY - GEN
T1 - White Visor
T2 - 33rd International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2019
AU - Yu, Bong Yeol
AU - Yang, Gyeongsik
AU - Jin, Heesang
AU - Yoo, Chuck
PY - 2019/5/17
Y1 - 2019/5/17
N2 - Network virtualization is a fundamental technology for datacenters and upcoming wireless communications (e.g., 5G). It takes advantage of software-defined networking (SDN) that provides efficient network management by converting networking fabrics into SDN-capable devices. Moreover, white-box switches, which provide flexible and fast packet processing, are broadly deployed in commercial datacenters. A white-box switch requires a specific and restricted packet processing pipeline; however, to date, there has been no SDN-based network hypervisor that can support the pipeline of white-box switches. Therefore, in this paper, we propose WhiteVisor: A network hypervisor which can support the physical network composed of white-box switches. WhiteVisor converts a flow rule from the virtual network into a packet processing pipeline compatible with the white-box switch. We implement the prototype herein and show its feasibility and effectiveness with pipeline conversion and overhead.
AB - Network virtualization is a fundamental technology for datacenters and upcoming wireless communications (e.g., 5G). It takes advantage of software-defined networking (SDN) that provides efficient network management by converting networking fabrics into SDN-capable devices. Moreover, white-box switches, which provide flexible and fast packet processing, are broadly deployed in commercial datacenters. A white-box switch requires a specific and restricted packet processing pipeline; however, to date, there has been no SDN-based network hypervisor that can support the pipeline of white-box switches. Therefore, in this paper, we propose WhiteVisor: A network hypervisor which can support the physical network composed of white-box switches. WhiteVisor converts a flow rule from the virtual network into a packet processing pipeline compatible with the white-box switch. We implement the prototype herein and show its feasibility and effectiveness with pipeline conversion and overhead.
KW - Network virtualization
KW - Software-defined networking
KW - White-box switch
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U2 - 10.1109/ICOIN.2019.8718167
DO - 10.1109/ICOIN.2019.8718167
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85066737040
T3 - International Conference on Information Networking
SP - 242
EP - 247
BT - 33rd International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2019
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 9 January 2019 through 11 January 2019
ER -