The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

Emerging mega-trends (eg, mobile, social, cloud, and big data) in information and
communication technologies (ICT) are commanding new challenges to future Internet, for …

Diverse proprietary network appliances increase both the capital and operational expense
of service providers, meanwhile causing problems of network ossification. Network function …

Networks today rely on middleboxes to provide critical performance, security, and policy
compliance capabilities. Achieving these benefits and ensuring that the traffic is directed …

With the advent of cloud computing, many new networking concepts have been introduced
to simplify network management and bring innovation through network programmability. The …

We present unikernels, a new approach to deploying cloud services via applications written
in high-level source code. Unikernels are single-purpose appliances that are compile-time …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is considered promising to simplify network
management and enable research innovations based on the decomposition of the control …

We present MoonGen, a flexible high-speed packet generator. It can saturate 10 GbE links
with minimum-sized packets while using only a single CPU core by running on top of the …

Software defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a promising paradigm for making the
control of communication networks flexible. SDN separates the data packet forwarding …

We present Dionysus, a system for fast, consistent network updates in software-defined
networks. Dionysus encodes as a graph the consistency-related dependencies among …