P4SC: A High Performance and Flexible Framework for Service Function Chain

Network function virtualization allows network functions to be implemented and managed flexibly as a service function chain (SFC) in the data plane to process flows. However, software-based SFCs lead to poor performance compared to proprietary middleboxes. Moreover, existing solutions tackling perfo...

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Main Authors: Dong Zhang, Xiang Chen, Qun Huang, Xiaoyan Hong, Chunming Wu, Haifeng Zhou, Yi Yang, Hongyan Liu, Yuxin Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8887155/