Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Traditional networking is hardware-based, having the control plane coupled with the data
plane. Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which has a logically centralized control plane …

Network stacks currently implemented in operating systems can no longer cope with the
packet rates offered by 10 Gbit Ethernet. Thus, frameworks were developed claiming to offer …

An exciting insight of recent networking research has been that path-aware networking
architectures are able to fundamentally solve many of the security issues of today's Internet …

New paradigms in networking industry, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), require the hypervisors to enable the execution of …

The virtualization of network functions is promising significant cost reductions for network
operators. Running multiple network functions on a standard x86 server instead of dedicated …

Abstract Software-Defined Networks, in its essence, are the separation of the data and
control planes of switching devices. The OpenFlow (OF) protocol is the most popular SDN …

The concept of network functions virtualization (NFV) has been embodied in commercial
networks over the past years. Software-based virtual network functions have forwarding …

With the introduction of Virtual Network Functions (VNF), network processing is no longer
done solely on special purpose hardware. Instead, deploying network functions on …

Of late an increasing amount of functionality in computer networks is provided by commodity
x86 hardware wherein the CPU is the main bottleneck. Relieving the CPU from a portion of …