LuoShen: A Hyper-Converged Programmable Gateway for Multi-Tenant Multi-Service Edge Clouds

Authors: 

Tian Pan, Kun Liu, Xionglie Wei, Yisong Qiao, Jun Hu, Zhiguo Li, Jun Liang, Tiesheng Cheng, Wenqiang Su, Jie Lu, Yuke Hong, Zhengzhong Wang, Zhi Xu, Chongjing Dai, Peiqiao Wang, Xuetao Jia, Jianyuan Lu, Enge Song, and Jun Zeng, Alibaba Cloud; Biao Lyu, Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud; Ennan Zhai, Alibaba Cloud; Jiao Zhang and Tao Huang, Purple Mountain Laboratories; Dennis Cai, Alibaba Cloud; Shunmin Zhu, Tsinghua University and Alibaba Cloud

Abstract: 

Edge clouds are expected to be a key revenue growth driver for cloud vendors in the next decade; however, simply replicating the network infrastructure for the public cloud to the edge experiences deployment issues. At the edge, the challenge for cloud network design is to deliver the required performance under the stringent restrictions of hardware budget and deployment footprints, while retaining functionality equivalence. To this end, we propose LuoShen, a hyper-converged gateway for multi-tenant multi-service edge clouds by consolidating the entire cloud network infrastructure into a 2U server switch with a P4-centric architecture. At the data plane, LuoShen conducts pipeline folding and fits the original overlay and underlay devices into the switch pipeline via meticulous on-chip resource budgeting. At the control plane, LuoShen relies on BGP peering to ensure inter-component reachability. LuoShen achieves 1.2Tbps throughput and reduces the upfront cost, deployment size and power usage by 75%, 87%, 60%, compared with the original cloud network architecture. It has been deployed in Alibaba Cloud at hundreds of edge sites.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {295565,
author = {Tian Pan and Kun Liu and Xionglie Wei and Yisong Qiao and Jun Hu and Zhiguo Li and Jun Liang and Tiesheng Cheng and Wenqiang Su and Jie Lu and Yuke Hong and Zhengzhong Wang and Zhi Xu and Chongjing Dai and Peiqiao Wang and Xuetao Jia and Jianyuan Lu and Enge Song and Jun Zeng and Biao Lyu and Ennan Zhai and Jiao Zhang and Tao Huang and Dennis Cai and Shunmin Zhu},
title = {{LuoShen}: A {Hyper-Converged} Programmable Gateway for {Multi-Tenant} {Multi-Service} Edge Clouds},
booktitle = {21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24)},
year = {2024},
isbn = {978-1-939133-39-7},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {877--892},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/pan},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}