Research Article
On Emulating Hardware/Software Co-designed Control Algorithms for Packet Switches
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2014.254797, author={Dimitris Syrivelis and Paolo Giaccone and Iordanis Koutsopoulos and Marco Pretti and Leandros Tassiulas}, title={On Emulating Hardware/Software Co-designed Control Algorithms for Packet Switches}, proceedings={Seventh International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS}, year={2014}, month={8}, keywords={hardware accelerator emulation framework packet switching systems multicast packet scheduling belief propagation}, doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2014.254797} }- Dimitris Syrivelis
Paolo Giaccone
Iordanis Koutsopoulos
Marco Pretti
Leandros Tassiulas
Year: 2014
On Emulating Hardware/Software Co-designed Control Algorithms for Packet Switches
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2014.254797
Abstract
Hardware accelerators in networking systems for control algorithms offer a promising approach to scale performance. To that end, several research efforts have been devoted to verify a hardware version of complex control algorithms but only for small-scale hardware unit tests. In this paper we propose and evaluate an emulation framework, in which such control algorithm accelerators can be integrated to design a packet switch, able both to forward real traffic and to enable extensive experimental evaluation and demonstration scenarios. As a case study, we have integrated in the proposed framework a Belief-Propagation-driven algorithm accelerator for multicast packet scheduling.
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