Firewall capabilities of operating systems are traditionally provided by inflexible filter
routines or hooks in the kernel. These require privileged access to be configured and are not …

Cloud computing and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represent together a promising
solution for wireless network operators to improve business agility and cope with the …

In scientific research, the independent reproduction of experimental results is the source of
trust. The release of experimental artifacts enables the reproduction of results; however …

QUIC is a new protocol standardized in 2021 designed to improve on the widely used
TCP/TLS stack. The main goal is to speed up web traffic via HTTP, but it is also used in other …

The SYN flood attack is a common attack strategy as part of Distributed Denial-of-Service,
which steadily becomes more frequent and of higher volume. To defend against SYN floods …

The concept of network functions virtualization (NFV) has been embodied in commercial
networks over the past years. Software-based virtual network functions have forwarding …

Emerging microservices demand flexible low-latency processing of network functions in
virtualized environments, eg, as containerized network functions (CNFs). While ensuring …

Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) represents a promising solution for wireless network
operators to improve business agility and cope with the continuing growth in data traffic …

Of late an increasing amount of functionality in computer networks is provided by commodity
x86 hardware wherein the CPU is the main bottleneck. Relieving the CPU from a portion of …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is now accepted in large production networks for
agile introduction of various Network Functions (NFs). A service chaining technology that …