Article
OpenStack Network Acceleration Scheme for Datacenter Intelligent Applications
2018 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)
(2018)
Abstract
Cloud virtualization and multi-tenant networking provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers a new and innovative way to offer on-demand services to their customers, such as easy provisioning of new applications and better resource efficiency and scalability. However, existing data-intensive intelligent applications require more powerful processors, higher bandwidth and lower-latency networking service. In order to boost the performance of computing and networking services, as well as reduce the overhead of software virtualization, we propose a new data center network design based on OpenStack. Specifically, we map the OpenStack networking services to the hardware switch and utilize hardware-accelerated L2 switch and L3 routing to solve the software limitations, as well as achieve software-like scalability and flexibility. We design our prototype system via the Arista Software-Defined-Networking (SDN) switch and provide an automatic script which abstracts the service layer that decouples OpenStack from the physical network infrastructure, thereby providing vendor-independence. We have evaluated the performance improvement in terms of bandwidth, delay, and system resource utilization using various tools and under various Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints. Our solution demonstrates improved cloud scaling and network efficiency via only one touch point to control all vendors' devices in the data center.
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Publication Date
September 10, 2018
DOI
10.1109/CLOUD.2018.00146
Citation Information
Linh Phan and Kaikai Liu. "OpenStack Network Acceleration Scheme for Datacenter Intelligent Applications" 2018 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) (2018) p. 962 - 965 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kaikai-liu/24/