MoonGen: A scriptable high-speed packet generator

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 275-287

  Emmerich, Paul ^a   Gallenmüller, Sebastian ^a   Raumer, Daniel ^a   Wohlfart, Florian ^a   Carle, Georg ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DPDK; Lua; Packet generation; User space networking

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; HTTP; INTERNET; PACKET NETWORKS;

COMMODITY HARDWARE; DPDK; HARDWARE FEATURES; HARDWARE SUPPORTS; LUA; PACKET GENERATIONS; PACKET PROCESSING; USER SPACES;

RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

EID: 84954101391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2815675.2815692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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