Programmable data plane technologies enable the systematic reconfiguration of the low-
level processing steps applied to network packets and are key drivers toward realizing the …

High-speed ASIC switches hold great promise for offloading complex packet processing
pipelines directly in the highspeed data-plane. Yet, a large variety of today's packet …

Data centers increasingly deploy commodity servers with high-speed network interfaces to
enable low-latency communication. However, achieving low latency at high data rates …

Data centers increasingly utilize commodity servers to deploy low-latency Network Functions
(NFs). However, the emergence of multi-hundred-gigabit-per-second network interface …

Could information about future incoming packets be used to build more efficient CPU-based
packet processors? Can such information be obtained accurately? This paper studies novel …

Batch is an important pattern in data streams, which refers to a group of identical items that
arrive closely. We find that some special batches that arrive periodically are of great value. In …

Network Functions (NFs) now process a significant fraction of Internet traffic. Software-based
NF Virtualization (NFV) promised to enable rapid development of new NFs by vendors and …

Batch is an important pattern in data streams, which refers to a group of identical items that
arrive closely. We find that some special batches that arrive periodically are of great value. In …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) seeks to replace hardware middleboxes with software-
based Network Functions (NFs). NFV systems are seeing greater deployment in the cloud …

Network Functions (NFs) are responsible for ensuring security in the network, optimizing
data traffic and balancing network load. NFs are chained to form Service Function Chains …