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| Author(s): |
Navarro do Amaral, Thiago A.
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Rosa, Raphael, V
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Moura, David F. Cruz
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Rothenberg, Christian E.
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Chemouil, P
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Ulema, M
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Clayman, S
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Sayit, M
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Cetinkaya, C
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Secci, S
Total Authors: 10
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT (CNSM 2021): SMART MANAGEMENT FOR FUTURE NETWORKS AND SERVICES; v. N/A, p. 7-pg., 2021-01-01. |
| Abstract | |
The edge computing infrastructure can scale from datacenters to single device. The well-known technology for fast packet processing is DPDK, which has outstanding performance regarding the throughput and latency. However, there are some drawbacks when the usage is done in the edge: (i) the polling mechanism for packet processing keeps the CPU exclusively occupied even if there is no traffic, leading to wasted resources; and (ii) DPDK interface becomes unavailable for the applications inside the host, so the integration between a non-DPDK application and a DPDK application becomes a hard task. In this paper, we propose an open-source in-kernel 5G UPF solution based on 3GPP Release 16 to be deployed in a restrictive environment like MEC, where MEC host and UPF are collocated with the Base Station, sharing the same computational and network resources. The solution leverages the eBPF/XDP, a novel Linux kernel technology for fast packet processing. We show it can scale and achieve 10 Mpps using only 60% of the CPU with 6 cores. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 20/05182-3 - PORVIR-5G: programability, orchestration and virtualization in 5G networks |
| Grantee: | José Marcos Silva Nogueira |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/23101-0 - LTE community networks in Brazil: sustainable modeling, deployment and maintenance towards new networking paradigms |
| Grantee: | Christian Rodolfo Esteve Rothenberg |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |