TCP proxies are basic building blocks for many advanced middleboxes. In this paper we present Miniproxy, a TCP proxy built on top of a specialized minimalistic cloud operating system. Miniproxy's connection handling performance is comparable to that of full-fledged GNU/Linux TCP proxy implementations, but its minimalistic footprint enables new use cases. Specifically, Miniproxy requires as little as 6 MB to run and boots in tens of milliseconds, enabling massive consolidation, on-the-fly instantiation and edge cloud computing scenarios. We demonstrate the benefits of Miniproxy by implementing and evaluating a TCP acceleration use case.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.06285,
title = {On-the-Fly TCP Acceleration with Miniproxy},
author = {Giuseppe Siracusano and Roberto Bifulco and Simon Kuenzer and Stefano Salsano and Nicola Blefari Melazzi and Felipe Huici},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06285},
year = {2016}
}
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Extended version of paper accepted for ACM HotMiddlebox 2016