Trellis: A platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware

Sapan Bhatia; Murtaza Motiwala; Wolfgang Muhlbauer; Yogesh Mundada; Vytautas Valancius; Andy Bavier; Nicholas G. Feamster; Larry Peterson; Jennifer L. Rexford

doi:10.1145/1544012.1544084

Trellis: A platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware

Sapan Bhatia, Murtaza Motiwala, Wolfgang Muhlbauer, Yogesh Mundada, Vytautas Valancius, Andy Bavier, Nicholas G. Feamster, Larry Peterson, Jennifer L. Rexford

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Abstract

We describe Trellis, a platform for hosting virtual networks on shared commodity hardware. Trellis allows each virtual network to define its own topology, control protocols, and forwarding tables, while amortizing costs by sharing the physical infrastructure. Trellis synthesizes two containerbased 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 and evaluate its packet-forwarding rates relative to other virtualization technologies and native kernel forwarding performance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1544012.1544084
State	Published - 2008
Event	2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08 - Madrid, Spain Duration: Dec 9 2008 → Dec 12 2008

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Name	Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08

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Other	2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	12/9/08 → 12/12/08

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Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Bhatia, S., Motiwala, M., Muhlbauer, W., Mundada, Y., Valancius, V., Bavier, A., Feamster, N. G., Peterson, L., & Rexford, J. L. (2008). Trellis: A platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware. In Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08 Article 72 (Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08). https://doi.org/10.1145/1544012.1544084

Bhatia, Sapan ; Motiwala, Murtaza ; Muhlbauer, Wolfgang et al. / Trellis : A platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware. Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08. 2008. (Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08).

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Bhatia, S, Motiwala, M, Muhlbauer, W, Mundada, Y, Valancius, V, Bavier, A, Feamster, NG, Peterson, L & Rexford, JL 2008, Trellis: A platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware. in Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08., 72, Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08, 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08, Madrid, Spain, 12/9/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1544012.1544084

Trellis: A platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware. / Bhatia, Sapan; Motiwala, Murtaza; Muhlbauer, Wolfgang et al.
Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08. 2008. 72 (Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08).

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Bhatia S, Motiwala M, Muhlbauer W, Mundada Y, Valancius V, Bavier A et al. Trellis: A platform for building flexible, fast virtual networks on commodity hardware. In Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08. 2008. 72. (Proceedings of 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 4th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '08). doi: 10.1145/1544012.1544084

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