Award winner

Mr. YAMADA Ayuto, Computer Science Program, Department of Engineering

（KAWASHIMA Laboratory）

IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2024 Best Paper Award

（IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2024）

Award-winning research

"Rethinking Message Buffer Structures for 100 Mpps Cloud-native Network Functions"

We drastically boosted packet forwarding efficiency of Cloud-native Network Functions (CNFs) toward the next-generation 6G network core. Specifically, we revisited packet structures available on commodity servers, and this resulted in over 99.9% of CPU cache (L1d) usage. Our result must accelerate the research and development of extremely flexible network slicing expected in 6G networks.

Efficiency of packet processing has long been a significant issue in software-based networking. Our approach can be a silver bullet of this problem in that fundamental efficiency of packet forwarding are enhanced many times. Furthermore, we have identified essential conditions to achieve the next-level performance. We are planning to assess our proposal on practical network environment.