The adoption of network traffic encryption is continually growing. Popular applications use
encryption protocols to secure communications and protect the privacy of users. In addition …

Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm and it has attracted
considerable attention from both the industry and academia because of its potential to …

We investigate the use of SmartNIC-accelerated servers to execute microservice-based
applications in the data center. By offloading suitable microservices to the SmartNIC's low …

Researchers have repurposed programmable network devices to place small amounts of
application computation in the network, sometimes yielding orders-of-magnitude …

Middleboxes that process confidential data cannot be securely deployed in untrusted cloud
environments. To securely outsource middleboxes to the cloud, state-of-the-art systems …

This paper presents the first critical analysis of building highly secure, performant, and
confidential Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus by integrating off-the-shelf crash fault …

Zero-knowledge middleboxes (ZKMBs) are a recent paradigm in which clients get privacy
and middleboxes enforce policy: clients prove in zero knowledge that the plaintext …

Existing oblivious storage systems provide strong security by hiding access patterns, but do
not scale to sustain high throughput as they rely on a central point of coordination. To …

The rapid increase in data traffic is forcing mobile network operators to enhance and expand
their network infrastructure to meet the new requirements of customers' Service Level …

Programmable switches allow the packet processing behavior to be applied to transmitted
packets, including the type, sequence, and semantics of processing operations, to be …