Sapan Bhatia, Murtaza Motiwala, Wolfgang Muhlbauer, Vytautas Valancius, Andy Bavier, Nick Feamster, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford
Tech Report, November 2007
This paper describes Trellis, a software platform for hosting multiple virtual networks on shared commodity hardware. Trellis allows each virtual network to define its own topology, control protocols, and forwarding tables, which lowers the barrier for deploying custom services on an isolated, reconfigurable, and programmable network, while amortizing costs by sharing the physical infrastructure. Trellis synthesizes two container-based virtualization technologies, VServer and NetNS, as well as a new tunneling mechanism, EGRE, into a coherent platform that enables high-speed virtual networks. We describe the design and implementation, of Trellis, including kernel-level performance optimizations, and evaluate its supported packet-forwarding rates against other virtualization technologies. We are in the process of upgrading the VINI facility to use Trellis. We also plan to release Trellis as part of MyVINI, a standalone software distribution that allows researchers and application developers to deploy their own virtual network hosting platforms.
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Georgia Tech Computer Science Technical Report GT-CS-07-10
Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{bhatia2007hosting,
author = "Sapan Bhatia and Murtaza Motiwala and Wolfgang Muhlbauer and Vytautas Valancius and Andy Bavier and Nick Feamster and Larry Peterson and Jennifer Rexford",
title = "{Hosting Virtual Networks on Commodity Hardware}",
booktitle = {Tech Report},
year = {2007},
month = {November},
address = {, }
}