As a recent innovation, network functions virtualization (NFV)—with its core concept of
replacing hardware middleboxes with software network functions (NFs) implemented in …

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) are among the most demanding
stateful network functions. Today's network operators are faced with securing 100Gbps …

The network interface cards (NICs) of modern computers are changing to adapt to faster
data rates and to help with the scaling issues of general-purpose CPU technologies. Among …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has received considerable attention in the past few
years, both from industry and academia, due to its potential for reducing capital and …

P4 has emerged as the de facto standard language for describing how network packets
should be processed, and is becoming widely used by network owners, systems developers …

Programmable network hardware can run services traditionally deployed on servers,
resulting in orders-of-magnitude improvements in performance. Yet, despite these …

Researchers have repurposed programmable network devices to place small amounts of
application computation in the network, sometimes yielding orders-of-magnitude …

Data-center network stacks are moving into hardware to achieve 100 Gbps data rates and
beyond at low latency and low CPU utilization. However, hardwiring the network stack in the …

With rising network rates, cloud vendors increasingly deploy FPGA-based SmartNICs (F-
NICs), leveraging their inline processing capabilities to offload hypervisor networking …

FPGA-based SmartNICs and programmable switches have been recently introduced to
leverage hardware acceleration and custom pipelines inside the cloud infrastructure. These …