PacketCloud: A Cloudlet-Based Open Platform for In-Network Services
Journal Article (Journal Article)
The Internet was designed with the end-to-end principle where the network layer provided merely the best-effort forwarding service. This design makes it challenging to add new services into the Internet infrastructure. However, as the Internet connectivity becomes a commodity, users and applications increasingly demand new in-network services. This paper proposes PacketCloud, a cloudlet-based open platform to host in-network services. Different from standalone, specialized middleboxes, cloudlets can efficiently share a set of commodity servers among different services, and serve the network traffic in an elastic way. PacketCloud can help both Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and emerging application/content providers deploy their services at strategic network locations. We have implemented a proof-of-concept prototype of PacketCloud. PacketCloud introduces a small additional delay, and can scale well to handle high-throughput data traffic. We have evaluated PacketCloud in both a fully functional emulated environment, and the real Internet.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Chen, Y; Cao, Q; Yang, X
Published Date
- April 1, 2016
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 27 / 4
Start / End Page
- 1146 - 1159
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1045-9219
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1109/TPDS.2015.2424222
Citation Source
- Scopus