The exponential growth of data traffic, which is not expected to stop anytime soon, brought
about a vast amount of advancements in the networking field. Latest network interfaces …

As a recent innovation, network functions virtualization (NFV)—with its core concept of
replacing hardware middleboxes with software network functions (NFs) implemented in …

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of high speed packet I/O frameworks,
bringing unprecedented network performance to userspace. Using the Click modular router …

In this paper we present Metron, a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that
achieves high resource utilization by jointly exploiting the underlying network and …

The recent surge of network I/O performance has put enormous pressure on memory and
software I/O processing sub systems. We argue that the primary reason for high memory and …

Packet classification is a fundamental problem in computer networking. This problem
exposes a hard tradeoff between the computation and state complexity, which makes it …

Develo** server applications that offload computation and data to a NIC accelerator is
laborious because one has to explore the design space of decisions about data placement …

Despite the popularity of GPUs in high-performance and scientific computing, and despite
increasingly general-purpose hardware capabilities, the use of GPUs in network servers or …

Restricting data plane processing to packet headers precludes analysis of payloads to
improve routing and security decisions. DeepMatch delivers line-rate regular expression …

We present the NBA framework, which extends the architecture of the Click modular router to
exploit modern hardware, adapts to different hardware configurations, and reaches close to …