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 …

Programmable packet processing is increasingly implemented using kernel bypass
techniques, where a userspace application takes complete control of the networking …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) switch vendors are interested in extending switch data
planes to support new and continuously evolving network protocols (eg, NVGRE, VXLAN) …

To become a credible alternative to specialized hardware, general-purpose networking
needs to offer not only flexibility, but also predictable performance. Recent projects have …

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of high speed packet I/O frameworks,
bringing unprecedented network performance to userspace. Using the Click modular router …

We introduce Snap, a framework for packet processing that outperforms traditional software
routers by exploiting the parallelism available on modern GPUs. While obtaining high …

State-of-the-art approaches to design, develop and optimize software packet-processing
programs are based on static compilation: the compiler's input is a description of the …

Overhead of memory accesses limits the performance of packet processing applications. To
overcome this bottleneck, today's network processors can utilize a wide-range of …

Programming network processors is challenging. To sustain high line rates, network
processors have extremely tight memory access and instruction budgets. Achieving desired …

We present the NBA framework, which extends the architecture of the Click modular router to
exploit modern hardware, adapts to different hardware configurations, and reaches close to …