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cUPFCard: High-Performance User Plane Function based on FPGA

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The essence of the User Plane Function (UPF) is strong forwarding, and virtualisation architecture by software implemented can not meet high-performance requirements. Thus, hardware acceleration becomes an option. However, existing offloading schemes as an accelerator are not prominent in the latency. In this paper, we implement a demo called cUPFCard to offload UPF into a smart NIC based on FPGA platform, which can provide higher throughput with lower latency. Experiments show that cUPFCard is feasible in the real network. Moreover, the throughput is improved 24 times, and the latency is decreased 41 times.

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Abhik Bose, Diptyaroop Maji, Prateek Agarwal, Nilesh Unhale, Rinku Shah, and Mythili Vutukuru. 2021. Leveraging Programmable Dataplanes for a High Performance 5G User Plane Function. In APNet 2021: 5th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking, Shenzhen, China, June 24 - 25, 2021. ACM, 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1145/3469393.3469400
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Francesco Paolucci, Davide Scano, Filippo Cugini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Luca Valcarenghi, Carlo Cavazzoni, Giuseppe Ferraris, and Piero Castoldi. 2021. User Plane Function Offloading in P4 switches for enhanced 5G Mobile Edge Computing. In 17th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks. IEEE, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN51631.2021.9477338
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Chung-An Shen, Ding-Yuan Lee, Chung-An Ku, Meng-Wei Lin, Kuo-Cheng Lu, and Shao-Yu Tan. 2019. A Programmable and FPGA-accelerated GTP Offloading Engine for Mobile Edge Computing in 5G Networks. In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops. IEEE, 1021–1022. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845143

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APNet '23: Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking
June 2023
229 pages
ISBN:9798400707827
DOI:10.1145/3600061
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Published: 05 September 2023

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APNET 2023: 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking
June 29 - 30, 2023
Hong Kong, China

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