Communication stack optimized per application without virtual machine overhead

• US 10,356,182 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2016
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Ben Ali, Racha, Haddad, Wassim, Mahkonen, Heikki, Manghirmalani, Ravi, Shirazipour, Meral
• Primary Examiner(s): Keehn, Richard G
• Application Number:
  US15/214,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20180027079A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,092 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/161 Implementation details of TCP/IP or UDP/IP stack architecture; Specification of modified or new header fields

Abstract

A method and a computing device are provided for improving datacenter operation. The datacenter operation is improved by establishing differentiated communication protocol stack support as a set of nano-services. The nano-services are executed to service connections on a per application or server basis for the datacenter to reduce overhead caused by virtual machines or containers utilizing separate communication protocol stacks. The method includes receiving a request to for a server via a known network access type, from a known application type, by a known user, or a known policy, determining whether the request can be serviced by an existing nano-service for the server, and establishing a new nano-service with a differentiated communication protocol stack instance for the server, in response to the request not being serviced by the existing nano-service.

Claims

1. A method executed by a computing device for improving datacenter operation by establishing differentiated communication protocol stack support as a set of nano-services that are executed to service connections on a per application or server basis for the datacenter to reduce overhead caused by virtual machines or containers utilizing separate communication protocol stacks, the method comprising:

receiving a request for a server via a known network access type, from a known application type, by a known user, or a known policy;

determining whether the request can be serviced by an existing nano-service for the server; and

establishing a new nano-service with a differentiated communication protocol stack instance for the server, in response to the request not being serviced by the existing nano-service, wherein the new nano-service or existing nano-service are unikernels separate from an operating system of the computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

building a set of nano-service images for each network access type, each server application type, each user, or each policy.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

storing the nano-service images in a storage system of the datacenter.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

forwarding the request to the new nano-service with the differentiated communication stack instance for the server.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a multiservice proxy that executes a proxy process for data traffic between the server and a set of clients.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the nano-service implements multipath transmission control protocol functions for the server.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication protocol stack is a transmission control protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack.

8. An electronic device for improving datacenter operation by establishing differentiated communication protocol stack support as a set of nano-services that are executed to service connections on a per application or server basis for the datacenter to reduce overhead caused by virtual machines or containers utilizing separate communication protocol stacks, the electronic device comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a communications stack orchestrator; and

a processing device coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the processing device configured to execute the communication stack orchestrator, the communication stack orchestrator configured to receive a request for a server via a known network access type, from a known application type, by a known user, or a known policy, to determine whether the request can be serviced by an existing nano-service for the server, and to establish a new nano-service with a differentiated communication protocol stack instance for the server, in response to the request not being serviced by the existing nano-service, wherein the new nano-service or existing nano-service are immutable light weight programs separate from an operating system of the computing device.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the communication stack orchestrator is further configured to build a set of nano-service images for each network access type, each server application type, each user, or each policy.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the communication stack orchestrator is further configured to store the nano-service images in a storage system of the datacenter.

11. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the communication stack orchestrator is further configured to forwarding the request to the new nano-service with the differentiated communication stack instance for the server.

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the electronic device is a multiservice proxy that executes a proxy process for data traffic between the server and a set of clients.

13. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the nano-service implements multipath transmission control protocol functions for the server.

14. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the communication protocol stack is a transmission control protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein that when executed cause an electronic device to implement a method for improving datacenter operation by establishing differentiated communication protocol stack support as a set of nano-services that are executed to service connections on a per application or server basis for the datacenter to reduce overhead caused by virtual machines or containers utilizing separate communication protocol stacks, the instructions causing the electronic device to perform a set of operations comprising:

receiving a request for a server via a known network access type, from a known application type, by a known user, or a known policy;

determining whether the request can be serviced by an existing nano-service for the server; and

establishing a new nano-service with a differentiated communication protocol stack instance for the server, in response to the request not being serviced by the existing nano-service, wherein the new nano-service or existing nano-service are unikernels separate from an operating system of the computing device.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, having further instructions stored therein, which when executed by the electronic device perform additional operations comprising:

building a set of nano-service images for each network access type, each server application type, each user, or each policy.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, having further instructions stored therein, which when executed by the electronic device perform additional operations comprising:

storing the nano-service images in a storage system of the datacenter.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, having further instructions stored therein, which when executed by the electronic device perform additional operations comprising:

forwarding the request to the new nano-service with the differentiated communication stack instance for the server.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the electronic device is a multiservice proxy that executes a proxy process for data traffic between the server and a set of clients.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the nano-service implements multipath transmission control protocol functions for the server.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the communication protocol stack is a transmission control protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack.