Hani Jamjoom, Dan Williams and Upendra Sharama
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)
Chicago, IL, Aug 2014
Abstract. As interest grows in introducing network
functions—--middleboxes--—to Platform as a Service
(PaaS) clouds, it is tempting to treat them as
normal PaaS services. However, the PaaS service
abstraction lacks sufficient support for middlebox
services. For example, network functions may require
proximity to data sources for efficient snooping or
request rewriting, or access to raw packets rather
than application-level requests. Instead, we propose
a new network function abstraction to PaaS clouds
called middlepipes. True to PaaS philosophy,
middlepipes are sufficiently high level for
application developers to forget about details like
packets vs. requests and data source
proximity. Middlepipes can be chained together to
cooperatively interpose on traffic between
applications and services. Furthermore, they can
generate callbacks into applications; in this paper,
we describe the middlepipe PaaS architecture in
the context of a "circuit breaker" network
function.
Keywords. Network Function Virtualization, Middleboxes, Platform as a Service, Cloud, Cloud Foundry
Bibtex.
@inproceedings{jamjoom-middlepipes-hotsdn-2014,
author = {Hani and Jamjoom and Dan and Williams and Upendra and Sharama},
title = {{Don’t Call Them Middleboxes, Call Them Middlepipes}},
booktitle = {ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)},
address = {Chicago, IL},
month = {Aug},
year = {2014}
}