Memory access is the major bottleneck in realizing multi-hundred-gigabit networks with
commodity hardware, hence it is essential to make good use of cache memory that is a …

This paper introduces Perséphone, a kernel-bypass OS scheduler designed to minimize tail
latency for applications executing at microsecond-scale and exhibiting wide service time …

Suboptimal scheduling decisions in operating systems, networking stacks, and application
runtimes are often responsible for poor application performance, including higher latency …

High-performance transaction processing needs to schedule numerous requests from the
network. However, such request scheduling comes with costs of complex information …

We present PacketMill, a system for optimizing software packet processing, which (i)
introduces a new model to efficiently manage packet metadata and (ii) employs code …

Network interface cards (NICs) are fundamental components of modern high-speed
networked systems, supporting multi-100 Gbps speeds and increasing programmability …

This paper presents NFOS, a programming model, runtime, and profiler for productively
developing software network functions (NFs) that scale on multicore machines. Writing …

Software network functions (NFs) trade-off flexibility and ease of deployment for an
increased challenge of performance. The traditional way to increase NF performance is by …

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

As network speeds have increased to over 100 Gbps, operators and researchers have lost
the ability to easily ask complex questions of reassembled and parsed network traffic. In this …