Technical Reports (CIS)
Title
Safety and Performance in an Open Packet Monitoring Architecture
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
January 2002
Abstract
Packet monitoring arguably needs the flexibility of open architectures and active networking. A significant challenge in the design of open packet monitoring systems is how to effectively strike a balance between flexibility, safety and performance. In this paper we investigate the performance of FLAME, a system that emphasizes flexibility by allowing applications to execute arbitrary code for each packet received. Our system attempts to achieve high performance without sacrificing safety by combining the use of a type-safe language, lightweight run-time checks, and fine-grained policy restrictions. Experiments with our prototype implementation demonstrate the ability of our system to support representative application workloads on Bgit/s links. Such performance indicates the overall efficiency of our approach; more narrowly targeted experiments demonstrate that the overhead required to provide safety is acceptable.
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Date Posted: 19 June 2007
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-02-07.