The path a packet takes when handled by the Linux Kernel has been well established for a
long time. Its overhead/bottleneck issues are also known. Nonetheless, complexity has …

In this paper we present Metron, a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that
achieves high resource utilization by jointly exploiting the underlying network and …

VPNs play an important role in today's Internet architecture. We investigate different
architectures for software implementations of VPN gateways and their effect on performance …

Deployment of 100Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) links challenges the packet processing limits of
commodity hardware used for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Moreover, realizing …

The integrity of the content a user is exposed to when browsing the web relies on a plethora
of non-web technologies and an infrastructure of interdependent hosts, communication …

Networks and network architectures are constantly evolving, manifesting in new
developments such as SDN, P4, and 400G Ethernet. These novel paradigms and …

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are an established technology that provides users a way to
achieve secure communication over an insecure communication channel, such as the public …

Security in the Internet has historically been added post-hoc, leaving services like email,
which, after all, is used by 3.7 billion users, vulnerable to large-scale surveillance. For email …

Link speeds in networks will in the near-future reach and exceed 100Gbps. While available
specialized hardware can accommodate these speeds, modern networks have adopted a …

Virtual private network (VPN) gateways are widely applied to provide secure end-to-end
remote access and to relay reliable interconnected communication in cloud computing. As …