Tilman Wolf

Title: CommBench - A Telecommunications Benchmark for Network Processors

Authors: Tilman Wolf and Mark Franklin

Abstract: This paper presents a benchmark, CommBench, for use in evaluating and designing telecommunications network processors. The benchmark applications focus on small, computationally intense program kernels typical of the network processor environment. The benchmark is composed of eight programs, four of them oriented towards packet header processing and four oriented towards data stream processing. The benchmark is defined and characteristics such as instruction frequencies, computational complexity, and cache performance are presented. These measured characteristics are compared to the standard SPEC benchmark. Three examples are presented indicating how CommBench can aid in the design of a single chip network multiprocessor.

Published: Tilman Wolf and Mark A. Franklin, "CommBench - a telecommunications benchmark for network processors," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Austin, TX, Apr. 2000, pp. 154-162.

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BibTeX:
@inproceedings{Wolf:CBT00,
   author    = {Tilman Wolf and Franklin, Mark A.},
   title     = {{CommBench} - A Telecommunications Benchmark for Network Processors},
   booktitle = {Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)},
   year      = 2000,
   month     = apr,
   address   = {Austin, TX},
   pages     = {154--162}
 }

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