With the growth of network applications such as 5G and artificial intelligence, network
security techniques, ie, the techniques that detect various attacks (eg, well-known denial-of …

The gap between CPU and networking speeds has motivated the development of
SmartNICs for NF (network functions) offloading. However, offloading performance is …

High-speed ASIC switches hold great promise for offloading complex packet processing
pipelines directly in the highspeed data-plane. Yet, a large variety of today's packet …

SmartNICs are on the rise as a packet processing platform, with the trend towards a uniform
P4 programming model. However, unleashing SmartNIC packet processing performance in …

Achieving zero-copy I/O has long been an important goal in the networking community.
However, data serialization obviates the benefits of zero-copy I/O, because it requires the …

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a widely used abstraction for cloud computing. The
programmer specifies type information for each remote procedure, and a compiler generates …

Service meshes play a central role in the modern application ecosystem by providing an
easy and flexible way to connect microservices of a distributed application. However …

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 …

In network function virtualization (NFV), network functions (NFs) are chained as a service
function chain (SFC) to enhance NF management with high flexibility. Recent solutions …

Our community has made significant progress in developing programmable network
infrastructure, starting from the control plane and expanding to the data plane. As a latest …