On the performance of commodity hardware for low latency and low jitter packet processing
Charalampos Stylianopoulos, Magnus Almgren, Olaf Landsiedel, Marina Papatriantafilou, Trevor Neish, Linus Gillander, B.C.V. Johansson, Staffan Bonnier · 2020
With the introduction of Virtual Network Functions (VNF), network processing is no longer done solely on special purpose hardware. Instead, deploying network functions on commodity servers increases flexibility and has been proven effective for many network applications. However, new industrial applications and the Internet of Things (IoT) call for event-based systems and midleware that can deliver ultra-low and predictable latency, which present a challenge for the packet processing infrastructure they are deployed on.