Machine learning is widely used to solve networking challenges, ranging from traffic
classification and anomaly detection to network configuration. However, machine learning …

Programmable data planes allow users to define their own data plane algorithms for network
devices including appropriate data plane application programming interfaces (APIs) which …

Programmable NICs allow for better scalability to handle growing network workloads,
however, providing an expressive, yet simple, abstraction to program stateful network …

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 …

Programmable data plane technologies enable the systematic reconfiguration of the low-
level processing steps applied to network packets and are key drivers toward realizing the …

Special-purpose hardware accelerators are increasingly pivotal for sustaining performance
improvements in emerging applications, especially as the benefits of technology scaling …

The network interface cards (NICs) of modern computers are changing to adapt to faster
data rates and to help with the scaling issues of general-purpose CPU technologies. Among …

P4 has emerged as the de facto standard language for describing how network packets
should be processed, and is becoming widely used by network owners, systems developers …

Programmable network hardware can run services traditionally deployed on servers,
resulting in orders-of-magnitude improvements in performance. Yet, despite these …

With rising network rates, cloud vendors increasingly deploy FPGA-based SmartNICs (F-
NICs), leveraging their inline processing capabilities to offload hypervisor networking …