TUNIE: A virtualized platform for network experiment on programmable infrastructure

Abstract

We present TUNIE, a network platform for rapid concurrent experiment of network innovation on virtualized programmable infrastructure. TUNIE integrates both software-and hardware-based router virtualization technologies to provide a flexible approach to configure and customize both the control plane and data plane, and at the same time satisfied various experiment designing requirements. We implement TUNIE, and deploy it in Tsinghua University. Early experiment of algorithm evaluation verifies the efficiency TUNIE.