Software-defined satellite networks(SDSNs)play an essential role in future networks.Due to the diverse service scenarios,SDSN faces the demand of packet processing for heterogeneous protocols.Existing packet switching...Software-defined satellite networks(SDSNs)play an essential role in future networks.Due to the diverse service scenarios,SDSN faces the demand of packet processing for heterogeneous protocols.Existing packet switching typically works on one single protocol.For protocol-heterogeneous users,existing packet switch architectures have to construct multiple protocol-specific switching instances,resulting in severe resource waste.In this article,we propose the heterogeneous protocol-independent packet switch architecture(HISA).HISA employs a fast parsing structure to achieve efficient heterogeneous packet parsing and a novel match-action pipeline to achieve shared packet processing among heterogeneous users.HISA can also support the online configuration of switching behaviors.Use cases illustrate the effectiveness of applying HISA in SDSN.Numerical results show that compared to existing packet switching,HISA can significantly improve the resource utilization of SDSN.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62101300,62341130)the Youth Fund Program of the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology under Grant BNR2021RC01012the Open Research Fund Program of the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology under Grant BNR2021KF02001.
文摘Software-defined satellite networks(SDSNs)play an essential role in future networks.Due to the diverse service scenarios,SDSN faces the demand of packet processing for heterogeneous protocols.Existing packet switching typically works on one single protocol.For protocol-heterogeneous users,existing packet switch architectures have to construct multiple protocol-specific switching instances,resulting in severe resource waste.In this article,we propose the heterogeneous protocol-independent packet switch architecture(HISA).HISA employs a fast parsing structure to achieve efficient heterogeneous packet parsing and a novel match-action pipeline to achieve shared packet processing among heterogeneous users.HISA can also support the online configuration of switching behaviors.Use cases illustrate the effectiveness of applying HISA in SDSN.Numerical results show that compared to existing packet switching,HISA can significantly improve the resource utilization of SDSN.
