NBA (Network Balancing Act)

"A High-performance packet processing framework for heterogeneous processors" (EuroSys 2015 paper)

Notice for paper readers

• The IDS source code is not available to the public, as it contains a derivation from industry-transferred code from Kargus.
  • You could refer to other open-source code, such as a GPU implementation of the Aho-Corasick algorithm in Snap.
• We used Intel DPDK v1.7 for the EuroSys 2015 paper, but have now upgraded to v16.04+.

Main Features

• 80-Gbps packet processing with a modular programming interface similar to Click.
• GPU and Xeon Phi offloading to boost complex computations such as IPsec encryption
• Adaptive load balancing for CPU/accelerator to maximize the system throughput

Documentation

See the documentation online.