Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture
By Vyas Sekar, Norbert Egi, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael K. Reiter, G. Shi. Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2012
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- SIMPLE-fying middlebox policy enforcement using SDN (2013, background): “In a large enterprise network with O (100) firewalls and O (100) IDSes [38], there are O (100 × 100) possible combinations of the Firewall-IDS sequence.”
- Orchestrating Virtualized Network Functions (2015, background): “CoMb [38] and xOMB [39] propose an extensible and consolidated framework for incrementally developing scalable middleboxes by leveraging the idea of reusable network processing pipelines.”
- Kandoo: a framework for efficient and scalable offloading of control applications (2012, methodology): “Middlebox architectures, such as Flow-Stream [7], SideCar [15] and CoMb [13], provide scalable programmability in data plane by intercepting .ows using processing nodes in which network applications are deployed.”
- A comprehensive survey of Network Function Virtualization (2018, methodology): “In addition, the number of middle-boxes n the network is comparable to the L2/L3 forwarding devices and ll these devices account for about 15% of the total energy conumption [40] .”
- Software-Defined Networking for Internet of Things: A Survey (2017, background): “The NIDS-based schemes require additional infrastructure [77] due to high aggregate data-rates.”
- Software-Defined Network Function Virtualization: A Survey (2015, background): “solidation to address the above challenges by systematically re-architecting middlebox infrastructure to exploit opportunities for consolidation [1], [61]–[63].”
- SoftCell: scalable and flexible cellular core network architecture (2013, unknown): “, see [18, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44]).”
- Piecing together the NFV provisioning puzzle: Efficient placement and chaining of virtual network functions (2015, background): “Further, recent studies show that the number of middleboxes in enterprise networks (as well as in datacenter and ISP networks) is similar to the number of physical routers [2]–[4].”
- Split/Merge: System Support for Elastic Execution in Virtual Middleboxes (2013, unknown): “CoMb [23] exploits middlebox structure to consolidate heterogeneous middlebox applications onto commodity hardware, but does not address the issue of scaling, parallelism, or elasticity.”