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 …

Modern RDMA hardware offers the potential for exceptional performance, but design
choices including which RDMA operations to use and how to use them significantly affect …

Maglev is Google's network load balancer. It is a large distributed software system that runs
on commodity Linux servers. Unlike traditional hardware network load balancers, it does not …

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 the main gateway for network traffic to a server, the network interface card (NIC) is an
ideal place to incorporate diverse network functionality, such as traffic control, protocol …

The ongoing network softwarization trend holds the promise to revolutionize network
infrastructures by making them more flexible, reconfigurable, portable, and more adaptive …

Programmable switches allow the packet processing behavior to be applied to transmitted
packets, including the type, sequence, and semantics of processing operations, to be …

Many research works have recently experimented with GPU to accelerate packet processing
in network applications. Most works have shown that GPU brings a significant performance …

In the last decade, a number of frameworks started to appear that implement, directly in
userspace with kernel-bypass mode, high-speed software data plane functionalities on …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) virtualizes software network functions to offer flexibility
in their design, management and deployment. Although GPUs have demonstrated their …