While kernel drivers have long been know to poses huge security risks, due to their
privileged access and lower code quality, bug-finding tools for drivers are still greatly lacking …

Packet scheduling is essential to properly support applications on Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) model. However, on OpenFlow/SDN, QoS is only performed with …

This study provides a comprehensive review and comparative analysis of existing
Information Flow Tracking (IFT) tools which underscores the imperative for mitigating data …

New storage interfaces continue to emerge fast on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)
storage. Fitting these innovations in the general-purpose I/O stack of operating systems has …

In recent years, many new Internet architectures are being proposed to solve shortcomings
in the current Internet. A lot of these new architectures merely extend the current TCP/IP …

Despite years of research on transport protocols, the tussle between in-network and end-to-
end congestion control has not been solved. This debate is due to the variance of conditions …

This paper introduces the abstraction of energy reserves for sensor networks that virtualizes
energy sources. It gives each of several applications sharing a platform the illusion of having …

Firewall is a cardinal element in network security paradigm, where it is a measure for
providing network access control. Iptables/netfilter is the most popular Linux firewall and …

This paper describes the Linux Traffic Control (TC) Classifier-Action (CA) subsystem
architecture. The subsystem has been around for over a decade (long before OF or P4) in …

The micro cloud model offers cloud behavior at the edge of the network. It allows dynamic
organization of the resources, closer to the users and the data. One of the crucial problems …