OpenBox: Enabling innovation in middlebox applications

Anat Bremler-Barr; Yotam Harchol; David Hay

doi:10.1145/2785989.2785992

OpenBox: Enabling innovation in middlebox applications

Anat Bremler-Barr, Yotam Harchol, David Hay

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

Contemporary networks contain many different kind of middleboxes that perform variety of advanced network functions. Currently, a special box is tailored to provide each such function. These special boxes are usually proprietary, and operators control over them is limited to the set of capabilities defined by the provider of each box. Nonetheless, many middleboxes perform very similar tasks. In this paper we present OpenBox: a logically-centralized framework that makes advanced packet processing and monitoring easier, faster, more scalable, flexible, and innovative. OpenBox decouples the control plane of middleboxes from their data plane, and unifies the data plane of multiple middlebox applications using entities called service instances. On top of the centralized control plane everyone can develop OpenBox applications. An OpenBox application, formerly implemented as a separate middlebox, instructs the data plane how to process packets in order to achieve its intended function. OpenBox service instances reside in data plane and process packets according to policies defined by the control plane. They can be implemented in software or use specialized hardware.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	67-72
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450335409
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2785989.2785992
State	Published - 21 Aug 2015
Event	2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, HotMiddlebox 2015 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 21 Aug 2015 → …

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Name	HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015

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Conference	2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, HotMiddlebox 2015
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	21/08/15 → …

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Bremler-Barr, A., Harchol, Y., & Hay, D. (2015). OpenBox: Enabling innovation in middlebox applications. In HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015 (pp. 67-72). (HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2785989.2785992

Bremler-Barr, Anat ; Harchol, Yotam ; Hay, David. / OpenBox : Enabling innovation in middlebox applications. HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. pp. 67-72 (HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015).

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Bremler-Barr, A, Harchol, Y & Hay, D 2015, OpenBox: Enabling innovation in middlebox applications. in HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015. HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 67-72, 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, HotMiddlebox 2015, London, United Kingdom, 21/08/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2785989.2785992

OpenBox: Enabling innovation in middlebox applications. / Bremler-Barr, Anat; Harchol, Yotam; Hay, David.
HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. p. 67-72 (HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015).

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Bremler-Barr A, Harchol Y, Hay D. OpenBox: Enabling innovation in middlebox applications. In HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2015. p. 67-72. (HotMiddlebox 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, Part of SIGCOMM 2015). doi: 10.1145/2785989.2785992

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