| Lecturer Profile |
Hong Xu received the B.Eng. degree from the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2007, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto. He joined the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong in 2013, where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests include data center networking, SDN, NFV, and cloud computing. He was the recipient of an Early Career Scheme Grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR in 2014. He also received the best paper awards from IEEE ICNP 2015 and ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2014. He is a member of ACM and IEEE. |
| Lecture Abstract |
A key enabling technology of NFV is software dataplane, which has attracted much attention in both academia and industry recently. Yet, till now there is little understanding about its performance in practice. In this talk, I will talk about our measurement study of NFV software dataplanes in terms of packet processing capability, one of the most fundamental and critical performance metrics. Specifically, we compare two state-of-the-art open-source NFV dataplanes, SoftNIC and ClickOS, using commodity 10GbE NICs under various typical workloads. |
