In order to facilitate flexible network service virtualization and migration, network functions
(NFs) are increasingly executed by software modules as so-called “softwarized NFs” on …

Datacenter systems and I/O devices now run at single-digit microsecond latencies, requiring
ns-scale operating systems. Traditional kernel-based operating systems impose an …

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 …

The path a packet takes when handled by the Linux Kernel has been well established for a
long time. Its overhead/bottleneck issues are also known. Nonetheless, complexity has …

The ongoing shift of cloud services from monolithic designs to mi-croservices creates high
demand for efficient and high performance datacenter networking stacks, optimized for fine …

The global scale and challenging requirements of modern cloud applications have led to the
development of complex, widely distributed, service-oriented applications. One enabler of …

FlexTOE is a flexible, yet high-performance TCP offload engine (TOE) to SmartNICs.
FlexTOE eliminates almost all host data-path TCP processing and is fully customizable …

The gap between CPU and networking speeds has motivated the development of
SmartNICs for NF (network functions) offloading. However, offloading performance is …

SmartNICs are on the rise as a packet processing platform, with the trend towards a uniform
P4 programming model. However, unleashing SmartNIC packet processing performance in …

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is widely used in high-performance computing
(HPC) and data center networks. In this paper, we first show that RDMA does not work well …