yield

Motivational questions

• Why run over Ethernet instead of over IP?
  • Drop in packet cache on the line?

Questions

• What kind of speedup can we get with an FPGA CS over a software CS?
  • We would need to implement a high-performance CS in DPDK or netmap
• What metrics are we actually interested in?
  • Throughput
  • "Lookup" latency (time from request in to response out)
• Can we speed up fragmentation?
  • We would need to either pre-fragment content to the MTU size (preferred) or perform fragmentation on the fly (not preferred)
• Can we speed up encryption?
  • Interest names would contain the encryption info, e.g., session ID, sequence number, etc.
  • The KVS would use that to lookup the encryption key and then perform encryption

References

• http://cial.csie.ncku.edu.tw/presentation/group_pdf/(FPL%202013)%20A%20high-performance%20IPV6%20lookup%20engine%20on%20FPGA.pdf
• http://front.sjtu.edu.cn/~jinyh/gradCourse/Paper/Network%20Algorithmics%20and%20Economics/Poptrie%20A%20Compressed%20Trie%20with%20Population%20Count%20for%20Fast%20and%20Scalable%20Software%20IP%20Routing%20Table%20Lookup.pdf
• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.294.4720&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• http://cial.csie.ncku.edu.tw/presentation/group_pdf/(TON%202012)%20FlashTrie%20Beyond%20100-Gbs%20IP%20Route%20Lookup%20Using%20Hash-Based%20Prefix-Compressed%20Trie.pdf
• http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~kirsch/pubs/hashing_hardware/ton.pdf

memcached-related papers:

• http://people.inf.ethz.ch/zistvan/doc/paperM3C_3.pdf
• http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~twenisch/papers/isca13.pdf