eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) significantly enhances observability, performance,
and security within the Linux kernel, playing a pivotal role in various real-world applications …

Layer 4 (L4) load balancing is crucial in cloud computing and elastic microservices. Existing
L4 load balancer designs can be split into two main categories: centralized designs using a …

FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) workloads feature unique patterns. Serverless functions are
ephemeral, highly concurrent, and bursty, with an execution duration ranging from a few …

Abstract Data Stream Processing engines have recently emerged as powerful tools for
simplifying the analysis of network telemetry data. Motivated by the ever-growing volume of …

In recent years, the adoption of the service mesh as a dedicated infrastructure layer to
support cloud-native systems has gained significant popularity. Service meshes involve the …

The Linux community has witnessed the rapid development of eBPF technology that allows
users to load custom programs into the Linux kernel to extend its capabilities. A key feature …

O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) multivendor integration, despite its promise of a
diverse 5G ecosystem, faces compatibility challenges such as vendor-specific …

State-of-the-art approaches to design, develop and optimize software packet-processing
programs are based on static compilation: the compiler's input is a description of the …

Sketch-based traffic measurement is a crucial building block for monitoring traffic statistics
and ensuring the quality of services of end-host applications. However, existing approaches …

In modern data center networks (DCNs), network-stack processing denotes a large portion
of the end-to-end latency of TCP flows. So profiling network-stack latency anomalies has …