Network function virtualization was recently proposed to improve the flexibility of network
service provisioning and reduce the time to market of new services. By leveraging …

With the growth of data volumes and variety of Internet applications, data centers (DCs) have
become an efficient and promising infrastructure for supporting data storage, and providing …

Multi-tenant datacenters represent an extremely challenging networking environment.
Tenants want the ability to migrate unmodified workloads from their enterprise networks to …

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Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an evolutionary networking paradigm which
has been adopted by large network and cloud providers, among which are Tech Giants …

Due to the existence of multiple stakeholders with conflicting goals and policies, alterations
to the existing Internet architecture are now limited to simple incremental updates; …

The concept of energy-efficient networking has begun to spread in the past few years,
gaining increasing popularity. Besides the widespread sensitivity to ecological issues, such …

The great amounts of energy consumed by large-scale computing and network systems,
such as data centers and supercomputers, have been a major source of concern in a society …

The move to virtualization has created a new network access layer residing on hosts that
connects the various VMs. Virtualized deployment environments impose requirements on …

This paper presents our design and experience with Andromeda, Google Cloud Platform's
network virtualization stack. Our production deployment poses several challenging …