NDN-DPDK Benchmark for ACM-ICN 2020 Paper

This repository contains NDN-DPDK benchmark script used in the following paper:

• Junxiao Shi, Davide Pesavento, and Lotfi Benmohamed. 2020. NDN-DPDK: NDN Forwarding at 100 Gbps on Commodity Hardware. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 30–40. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3405656.3418715

This software is developed at the Advanced Network Technologies Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is provided for reproducibility purpose and will not receive updates.

Usage

The benchmark requires two machines, connected with three ports like this diagram:

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| ndn-dpdk  |
| forwarder |
---v--v--v---
   |  |  |
---^--^--^---
| traffic   |
| generator |
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NDN-DPDK paper has specific information on the hardware and operating system setup.

To run the benchmarks:

1. Clone this repository to $HOME/benchmark.

2. Clone NDN-DPDK to $HOME/go/src/ndn-dpdk and checkout revision 34f561f4ef0e5790d4999107dcbb4c2eab82af66. Due to significant changes in NDN-DPDK codebase, the benchmark will not work with other NDN-DPDK versions.

3. Build and install NDN-DPDK.

4. Run npm install.

5. Copy sample.env to .env, and then enter the following in .env:

   • SSH host and JSON-RPC management endpoint of each machine.
   • PCI address and NUMA socket of each Ethernet adapter.

6. Run a benchmark script with ts-node. For example:

   ts-node ./batch-numa-fwds.ts

   If necessary, modify the script to adjust parameter ranges.

7. Results are stored in output/ directory. If you want to rerun a benchmark scenario, you need to delete the result folder for that scenario, otherwise the scenario will be skipped.