Software Switch Performance Factors in Network Virtualization Environment
Yimeng Zhao, Luigi Iannone, Michel Riguidel · 2014
The maturity of Software Defined Network (SDN) and network virtualization has inspired the development of software switch. This paper studies the behavior of soft switch in network virtualization environment. We investigate main performance factors and evaluate their impacts. Based on these measurements, we extend resource allocation among multiple soft switch instances with consideration of topology design. Simulation results show that proper coordination between resource allocation and topology greatly improves performance.