5. Evaluation

Based on our conceptional contributions on host bypassing, Internet service creation on programmable hardware, and active queue management in programmable hardware, we will show the viability of these approaches in the following. Further, we will investigate the properties of the prior introduced approaches in detail. The evaluation of this work builds upon the P4STA framework introduced in this work, which allows very accurate measurement of network functions performance. The accuracy of this novel measurement methodology is discussed in the foregoing Chap. 4. First, in Sect. 5.1, we discuss the host bypassing approach while presenting measurement results for various deployment scenarios. Following, the concepts for Internet service creation in access networks are discussed in Sect. 5.2, investigating residential and mobile Internet access technologies. To improve the Quality of Service (QoS) in Internet access networks, we proposed concepts for Active Queue Management (AQM) in programmable hardware, which are evaluated and discussed in Sect. 5.3.