Showcasing In-Switch Machine Learning Inference

Autor: Akem Aritside, Bütün, Beyza, Gucciardo, Michele, Fiore, Marco
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8125040
Popis: Recent endeavours have enabled the integrationof trained machine learning models like Random Forests inresource-constrained programmable switches for line rate inference.In this work, we first show how packet-level informationcan be used to classify individual packets in production-levelhardware with very low latency. We then demonstrate how thenewly proposed Flowrest framework improves classificationperformance relative to the packet-level approach by exploitingflow-level statistics to instead classify traffic flows entirely withinthe switch without considerably increasing latency. We conductexperiments using measurement data in a real-world testbedwith an Intel Tofino switch and shed light on how Flowrestachieves an F1-score of 99% in a service classification use case,outperforming its packet-level counterpart by 8%.
Databáze: OpenAIRE