NETREACT: Distributed Event Detection in Sensor Data Streams with Disaggregated Packet Processing Pipelines
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Gyorgyi, Csaba; Kecskemeti, Karoly; Mallouhi, Hiba; Voros, Peter; Laki, Sandor
- Source
- 2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on. :249-253 Jun, 2022
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Event detection
Filtering
Conferences
Pipelines
Distributed databases
Throughput
Data processing
P4
in-network computing
pipeline disaggregation
event detection
sensor data processing
- Language
- ISSN
- 2693-9789
A new phenomenon called in-network computing has recently emerged with the aim of offloading calculations beyond the traditional task of packet forwarding to network switches. One of the most studied in-network computing applications is processing of sensor data streams. Existing works such as FastReact focus on solving this problem using flexible SmartNICs. In this paper, we propose NETREACT: an improved ASIC-oriented design for distributed event detection in sensor data streams to achieve a disaggregated processing pipeline. In contrast to existing approaches, NETREACT distributes the event detection task among a set of switches while leveraging the capabilities of the Intel Tofino platform in terms of boosting throughput and reducing latency. The proposed event-rule disaggregation method has the advantage of overcoming the hardware resource constraints and improving the overall network performance.