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Dynamic accelerator provisioning for SSH tunnels in NFV environments

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In this demonstration, we present dynamic allocation of accelerator resources to SSH tunnels in an NFV environment. In order to accelerate a VNF, its compute-intensive operations are offloaded to hardware cores running on an FPGA. The CPU utilization information of VNFs is continuously processed by a service management component to dynamically decide the suitable target to run VNF's crypto-operations. We also demonstrate switching between the non-accelerated and hardware-accelerated SSH-tunnels triggered by a change in the nature of the data traffic flowing through the tunnel and indicate throughput gains obtainable in dynamically switching contexts.
Book: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 IEEE CONFERENCE ON NETWORK SOFTWARIZATION (NETSOFT 2019)
Pages: 242 - 244
ISBN:9781538693766
Publication year:2019
Accessibility:Open