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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2016.41.10.1290

Design and Implementation of Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (NAT)  

Lee, Moon-Sang (KT Institute of Convergence Technology)
Lee, Chiyoung (KT Institute of Convergence Technology)
Kim, Wootae (KT Institute of Convergence Technology)
Lee, Young-Woo (KT Institute of Convergence Technology)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.41, no.10, 2016 , pp. 1290-1300 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, various middle box services have been developed and applied to provide network functions to end nodes of the network. Especially, network virtualization is increasingly proceeding by applying the virtualization technologies of cloud computing field to network field, and network platforms for various flexible services are being developed to connect among the virtual network devices. Carrier-grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT) is also one of these flexible network services. This paper designs and implements the DPDK-based CGNAT framework that provides flexibility and maximizes address translation throughput. Our framework achieves 15.5 times higher throughput than the address translation service by Linux kernel.
Keywords
NAT; Carrier-Grade; DPDK; Packet Processing;
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