Adaptive load sharing for network processors

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM - Tập 2 - Trang 545-554 vol.2
L. Kencl1, J.-Y. Le Boudec2
1Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM Research, Ruschlikon, Switzerland
2Department of Communication Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Tóm tắt

A novel scheme for processing packets in a router is presented, which provides for load sharing among multiple network processors distributed within the router. It is complemented by a feedback control mechanism designed to prevent processor overload. Incoming traffic is scheduled to multiple processors based on a deterministic mapping. The mapping formula is derived from the robust hash routing (also known as the highest random weight - HRW) scheme, introduced in K.W. Ross, IEEE Network, vol. 11, no. 6 (1997), and D.G. Thaler et al, IEEE Trans. Networking, vol. 6, no. 1 (1998). No state information on individual flow mapping needs to be stored, but for each packet, a mapping function is computed over an identifier vector, a predefined set of fields in the packet. An adaptive extension to the HRW scheme is provided in order to cope with biased traffic patterns. We prove that our adaptation possesses the minimal disruption property with respect to the mapping and exploit that property in order to minimize the probability of flow reordering. Simulation results indicate that the scheme achieves significant improvements in processor utilization. A higher number of router interfaces can thus be supported with the same amount of processing power.

Từ khóa

#Processor scheduling #Telecommunication traffic #Engines #Load management #Switches #Energy consumption #Feedback control #Process design #Communication system traffic control #Robustness

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