@inproceedings{c24fb086a69e407da2dff1c165403ba3,
title = "SoftFlow: A middlebox architecture for open vswitch",
abstract = "Open vSwitch is a high-performance multi-layer virtual switch that serves as a flexible foundation for building virtualized, stateless Layer 2 and 3 network services in multitenant datacenters. As workloads become more sophisticated, providing tenants with virtualized middlebox services is an increasingly important and recurring theme, yet it remains difficult to integrate these stateful services efficiently into Open vSwitch and its OpenFlow forwarding model: middleboxes perform complex operations that depend on internal state and inspection of packet payloads - functionality which is impossible to express in OpenFlow. In this paper, we present SoftFlow, an extension of Open vSwitch that seamlessly integrates middlebox functionality while maintaining the familiar OpenFlow forwarding model and performing significantly better than alternative techniques for middlebox integration.",
author = "Jackson, {Ethan J.} and Melvin Walls and Aurojit Panda and Justin Pettit and Ben Pfaff and Jarno Rajahalme and Teemu Koponen and Scott Shenker",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 by The USENIX Association. All Rights Reserved.; 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2016 ; Conference date: 22-06-2016 Through 24-06-2016",
year = "2016",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2016",
publisher = "USENIX Association",
pages = "15--28",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2016",
}