Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN), which decouples control plane and data
plane, normally stores states on controllers to provide flexible programmability and …

Corundum is an open-source, FPGA-based prototy** platform for network interface
development at up to 100 Gbps and beyond. The Corundum platform includes several core …

High-performance distributed transactions require efficient remote operations on database
memory and protocol metadata. The high communication cost of this workload calls for …

Programmable NICs have diverse uses, and there is need for a NIC platform that can offload
computation from multiple co-resident applications to many different types of substrates …

Multiple vendors have recently released SmartNICs that provide both special-purpose
accelerators and programmable processing cores that allow increasingly sophisticated …

With increasing link speeds and slowdown in the scaling of CPU speeds, packet scheduling
in software is resulting in lower precision and higher CPU utilization. By offloading packet …

Packet schedulers traditionally focus on the prioritized transmission of packets. Scheduling
is often realized through coarse-grained queue-level priorities, as in today's switches, or …

Memory access is the major bottleneck in realizing multi-hundred-gigabit networks with
commodity hardware, hence it is essential to make good use of cache memory that is a …

This paper introduces Perséphone, a kernel-bypass OS scheduler designed to minimize tail
latency for applications executing at microsecond-scale and exhibiting wide service time …

At the core of Network Functions Virtualization lie Network Functions (NFs) that run co-
resident on the same server, contend over its hardware resources and, thus, might suffer …