Empowering network security with programmable switches: A comprehensive survey

X Chen, C Wu, X Liu, Q Huang, D Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growth of network applications such as 5G and artificial intelligence, network
security techniques, ie, the techniques that detect various attacks (eg, well-known denial-of …

In-network aggregation with transport transparency for distributed training

S Liu, Q Wang, J Zhang, W Wu, Q Lin, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent In-Network Aggregation (INA) solutions offload the all-reduce operation onto network
switches to accelerate and scale distributed training (DT). On end hosts, these solutions …

Automatic performance-optimal offloading of network functions on programmable switches

X Chen, H Liu, D Zhang, Z Meng… - … on Cloud Computing, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In network function virtualization (NFV), network functions (NFs) are chained as a service
function chain (SFC) to enhance NF management with low cost and high flexibility. Recent …

SketchGuide: Reconfiguring sketch-based measurement on programmable switches

Z Zhou, J Lv, L Cheng, X Chen, T Zhang… - 2022 IEEE 30th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sketches enable efficient and fine-grained network measurement results with configurable
resource-performance trade-offs. While sketch configurations are guided by theories, the …

Terra: Low-latency and reliable event collection in network measurement

H Liu, X Sun, X Chen, Q Huang, D Zhang… - Journal of Network and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Modern network measurement employs several measurement points in the substrate
network. These points perform measurement tasks to measure traffic and report real-time …

Openint: Dynamic in-band network telemetry with lightweight deployment and flexible planning

J Cai, H Lin, T Sun, Z Zhou, L Zhu… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The normal operation of data center network management tasks relies on accurate
measurement of the network status. In-band Network Telemetry (INT) leverages …

Empowering ddos attack mitigation with programmable switches

X Chen, H Liu, D Zhang, Q Huang, H Zhou… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have long been the most severe and
destructive attack on modern networks. Some solutions place several middleboxes that run …

Flexible offloading of service function chains to programmable switches

J Ma, S **e, J Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered sequence of network functions (NFs). Though
cost-effective, software-based NFs could introduce a significant performance penalty. In this …

Performance-aware orchestration of P4-based heterogeneous cloud environments

H Harkous, BA Hosn, M He, M Jarschel… - … on Network and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent trend to deploy programmable packet processors in cloud environaxsxsments
enhances the packet processing capability without losing the flexibility to adapt the functions …

Melody: Toward resource-efficient packet header vector encoding on programmable switches

X Chen, H Liu, Q **ao, J Zhang… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The programmable switch offers a limited capacity of packet header vector (PHV) words that
store packet header fields and metadata fields defined by network functions. However …