Containing Low Tail-Latencies in Packet Processing Using Lightweight Virtualization: Raw Data

This Dataset contains PCAPs and detailed per flow CSV data for the reproducibility of the paper "Containing Low Tail-Latencies in Packet Processing Using Lightweight Virtualization": Packet processing in current network scenarios faces complex challenges due to the increasing prevalence of requirements such as low latency, high reliability, and resource sharing. Virtualization is a potential solution to mitigate these challenges by enabling resource sharing and on-demand provisioning; however, ensuring high reliability and ultra-low latency remains a key challenge.<br> Since bare-metal systems are often impractical because of high cost and space usage, and virtual machines require substantial additional resources, we evaluate the utilization of containers as a potential lightweight solution for low-latency-enabled packet processing.<br> Herein, we discuss the benefits and drawbacks and encourage the use of container environments in low-latency packet processing when the degree of isolation of customer data is adequate and bare metal systems are unaffordable.<br> Our results demonstrate that containers achieve similar latency performance with more predictable tail-latency behavior compared to bare metal packet processing.<br> Furthermore, we show that the overhead caused by virtualization is negligible in tail latencies.