In comparison with cloud computing, edge computing offers processing at locations closer to
end devices and reduces the user experienced latency. The new recent paradigm of in …

The path a packet takes when handled by the Linux Kernel has been well established for a
long time. Its overhead/bottleneck issues are also known. Nonetheless, complexity has …

We present PacketMill, a system for optimizing software packet processing, which (i)
introduces a new model to efficiently manage packet metadata and (ii) employs code …

As network speeds have increased to over 100 Gbps, operators and researchers have lost
the ability to easily ask complex questions of reassembled and parsed network traffic. In this …

Packet-processing data planes have been continuously enhanced in performance over the
last few years to the point that, nowadays, they are increasingly implemented in hardware …

Software network functions (NFs) trade-off flexibility and ease of deployment for an
increased challenge of performance. The traditional way to increase NF performance is by …

Multi-tenancy is essential for unleashing SmartNIC's potential in datacenters. Our systematic
analysis in this work shows that existing on-path SmartNICs have resource multiplexing …

Sketching algorithms or sketches are attractive as telemetry capabilities on programmable
hardware switches since they offer rigorous accuracy guarantees and use compact data …

Deployment of 100Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) links challenges the packet processing limits of
commodity hardware used for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Moreover, realizing …

Increasing demand for flexibility in datacenter networks has led researchers to propose
various designs of adaptable topologies using optical circuit switching. However …