Analysis of mutual exclusion overhead of NDN packet forwarding on multi-core software router
Junji Takemasa, Yuki Koizumi, Tōru Hasegawa · 2018
This paper analyzes mutual exclusion overhead caused by Pending Interest Table (PIT) updates on multi-core Named Data Networking (NDN) software routers. The analysis reveals that an instruction to make the mutual exclusion atomic results in a bottleneck for high speed forwarding.