Tripod: Towards a Scalable, Efficient and Resilient Cloud Gateway
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications(2019)
摘要
Cloud gateways are fundamental components of a cloud platform, where various network functions (e.g., L4/L7 load balancing, network address translation, stateful firewall, and SYN proxy) are deployed to process millions of connections and billions of packets. Providing
high-performance
and
failure-resilient
packet processing with a
scalable traffic management
mechanism is crucial to ensuring the quality of service of a cloud provider, and hence is of great importance. Many network functions nowadays are implemented in software with commodity servers for low cost and high flexibility. However, existing software-based network function frameworks oftentimes provide part of these features, while cannot satisfy all three requirements above simultaneously. To address these issues, in this paper, we introduce TRIPOD, a novel network function framework specialized for cloud gateways. Having identified the fundamental limitations of loosely coupling
traffic
,
processing logic
and
state
, TRIPOD jointly manages these three elements with the unique characteristics of cloud gateways, which is enabled by a
simple, efficient traffic processing mechanism
, and a
high performance state management service
. Adopting several effective techniques and optimizations, TRIPOD is able to achieve
scalable traffic management
(<100 flow rules for even ~Tbps traffic),
high performance
(reducing 40% of latency compared with state of the art) and
failure resilience
(similar packet/connection loss rate compared to state of the art), with reasonable overheads (less than 10% of the workload traffic) even under an extremely heavy traffic, making it a good fit for cloud gateways.
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关键词
Logic gates,Cloud computing,Resilience,Servers,Couplings,Scalability,Fault tolerance
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