Reducing the complexity of virtual machine networking

Vrijders, Sander and Maffione, Vincenzo and Staessens, Dimitri and Salvestrini, Francesco and Biancani, Matteo and Grasa, Eduard and Colle, Didier and Pickavet, Mario and Barron, Jason and Day, John and Chitkushev, Lou (2016) Reducing the complexity of virtual machine networking. IEEE Communications Magazine, 54 (4). pp. 152-158. ISSN 0163-6804

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Abstract

Virtualization is an enabling technology that improves scalability, reliability, and flexibility. Virtualized networking is tackled by emulating or paravirtualizing network interface cards. This approach, however, leads to complexities (implementation and management) and has to conform to some limitations imposed by the Ethernet standard. RINA turns the current approach to virtualized networking on its head: instead of emulating networks to perform inter-process communication on a single processing system, it sees networking as an extension to local inter-process communication. In this article, we show how RINA can leverage a paravirtualization approach to achieve a more manageable solution for virtualized networking. We also present experimental results performed on IRATI, the reference open source implementation of RINA, which shows the potential performance that can be achieved by deploying our solution.

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Additional Information: Funding Information: This work is partly funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) through the projects IRATI (Grant 317814), part of the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) objective, and IRINA, part of the GN3plus Open Calls. Publisher Copyright: © 2016 IEEE.
Uncontrolled Keywords: /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1706
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Date Deposited: 19 Oct 2022 23:05
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2023 18:43
URI: http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/3987

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