As high-speed networks are becoming commonplace, it is increasingly challenging to
prevent the attack attempts at the edge of the Internet. While many high-performance …

Recent popularity of smartphones drives rapid growth in the demand for cellular network
bandwidth. Unfortunately, due to the centralized architecture of cellular networks, increasing …

Users' demands have dramatically increased due to widespread availability of broadband
access and new Internet avenues for accessing, sharing and working with information. In …

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 …

Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

In recent years, the progress in both hardware and software allows user-space applications
to capture packets at 10 Gb/s line rate or more, with cheap COTS hardware. However …

Software network functions (NFs) trade-off flexibility and ease of deployment for an
increased challenge of performance. The traditional way to increase NF performance is by …

Abstract The Fifth-Generation (5G) networks, as the emerging next generation mobile
networks, are adopting softwarization and virtualization technologies as the cornerstones for …

In this paper we introduce SNF, a framework that synthesizes (S) network function (NF)
service chains by eliminating redundant I/O and repeated elements, while consolidating …

As network speeds have increased to over 100 Gbps, operators and researchers have lost
the ability to easily ask complex questions of reassembled and parsed network traffic. In this …