Modern interactive and data-intensive applications must operate under demanding time
constraints, prompting a shift toward the adoption of specialized software and hardware …

Modern cloud architectures rely on each server running its own networking stack to
implement policies such as tunneling for virtual networks, security, and load balancing …

Cloud virtualization and multi-tenant networking provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
providers a new and innovative way to offer on-demand services to their customers, such as …

Next-generation AI applications benefit from executing close to the network edge to better
exploit co-locality to datasources and controlled actuators, and to meet stringent latency …

Edge cloud computing is a promising programming and deployment paradigm to empower
delay-sensitive applications. By executing close to the network edge, distributed …

Network function virtualization (NFV) enables network operators to save costs and flexibility
by replacing dedicated hardware with software network functions running on commodity …

Accounting for the exponential increase in security threats, the development of new defense
strategies for pervasive environments is acquiring an ever-growing importance. The …

Today's data centers consist of thousands of network-connected hosts, each with CPUs and
accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs. These hosts also contain network interface cards …

A revolution is beginning in communication networks with the adoption of network function
virtualization, which allows network services to be run on common off-the-shelf hardware …

Enterprises today face several challenges when hosting line-of-business applications in the
cloud. Central to many of these challenges is the limited support for control over cloud …