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Latency Measurement as a Virtualized Network Function using Metherxis

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Diego Rossi Mafioletti,

Alextian Bartholomeu Liberatto,

Rodolfo da Silva Villaça,

Cristina Klippel Dominicini,

Magnos Martinello,

Moises Renato Nunes RibeiroAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 46, Issue 4

Pages 14 - 16

https://doi.org/10.1145/3027947.3027950

Published: 23 December 2016 Publication History

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Network latency is critical to the success of many highspeed, low-latency applications. RFC 2544 discusses and defines a set of tests that can be used to describe the performance characteristics of a network device. However, most of the available measurement tools cannot perform all the tests as described in this standard. As a novel approach, this paper proposes Metherxis, a system that can be implemented on general purpose hardware and enables Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) to measure network device latency with micro-second grade accuracy. Results show that Metherxis achieves highly accurate latency measurements when compared to OFLOPS, a well known measurement tool.

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Latency Measurement as a Virtualized Network Function using Metherxis
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network measurement

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 46, Issue 4

October 2016

40 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/3027947

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Published: 23 December 2016

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Renl BGuo DTang GWang WLuo LFu X(2021)SRUF: Low-Latency Path Routing with SRv6 Underlay Federation in Wide Area Network2021 IEEE 41st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)10.1109/ICDCS51616.2021.00091(910-920)Online publication date: Jul-2021
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Lin YLai YWang CLai Y(2018)OFBench: Performance Test Suite on OpenFlow SwitchesIEEE Systems Journal10.1109/JSYST.2017.272075812:3(2949-2959)Online publication date: Sep-2018
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Martinello MLiberato ABeldachi AKondepu KGomes RVillaca RRibeiro MYan YHugues-Salas ESimeonidou D(2017)Programmable residues defined networks for edge data centres2017 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)10.23919/CNSM.2017.8255987(1-9)Online publication date: Nov-2017
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