xOMB: Extensible open middleboxes with commodity servers

ANCS 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-60

  Anderson, James W ^a   Braud, Ryan ^a   Kapoor, Rishi ^a   Porter, George ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

application layer switch; middlebox; network processing pipeline

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION INTEGRATION; FLEXIBLE PROGRAMMING MODEL; MIDDLEBOXES; NETWORK FLOWS; NETWORK PROCESSING; OPEN-SOURCE; PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK; PROGRAMMABLE SWITCHES; SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PIPELINES; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871331372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2396556.2396566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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