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OpenFunction: Data Plane Abstraction for Software-Defined Middleboxes
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2016
arXiv
pre-print
The state-of-the-art OpenFlow technology only partially realized SDN vision of abstraction and centralization for packet forwarding in switches. OpenFlow/P4 falls short in implementing middlebox functionalities due to the fundamental limitation in its match-action abstraction. In this paper, we advocate the vision of Software-Defined Middleboxes (SDM) to realize abstraction and centralization for middleboxes. We further propose OpenFunction, an SDM reference architecture and a network function
arXiv:1603.05353v1
fatcat:3efzxz6kdnah7cqghzg7xykr2e