Title :
In-kernel offloading of an SDN/OpenFlow Controller
Author :
Shalimov, A. ; Ivashchenko, P.
Author_Institution :
Appl. Res. Center for Comput. Networks, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Lomonosov, Russia
Abstract :
This paper presents the novel approach on offloading the most time consuming and frequently used functionality of the SDN/OpenFlow controller to the Linux kernel space. This speeds up network applications in 2.5 times together with possibility of using the all userspace libraries and programming tools.
Keywords :
Linux; operating system kernels; protocols; software defined networking; Linux kernel space; SDN/OpenFlow controller; in-kernel offloading; programming tool; userspace library; Aerospace electronics; Control systems; Kernel; Linux; Message systems; Network topology; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Science and Technology Conference (Modern Networking Technologies) (MoNeTeC), 2014 International
Conference_Location :
Moscow
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7593-8
DOI :
10.1109/MoNeTeC.2014.6995599
