Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

Data centers (DCs), owing to the exponential growth of Internet services, have emerged as
an irreplaceable and crucial infrastructure to power this ever-growing trend. A DC typically …

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of CONGA, a network-based
distributed congestion-aware load balancing mechanism for datacenters. CONGA exploits …

The classical formulation of the program-synthesis problem is to find a program that meets a
correctness specification given as a logical formula. Recent work on program synthesis and …

Sketch-based measurement has emerged as a promising alternative to the traditional
sampling-based network measurement approaches due to its high accuracy and resource …

Maglev is Google's network load balancer. It is a large distributed software system that runs
on commodity Linux servers. Unlike traditional hardware network load balancers, it does not …

Networks today rely on middleboxes to provide critical performance, security, and policy
compliance capabilities. Achieving these benefits and ensuring that the traffic is directed …

Network performance anomalies (NPAs), eg long-tailed latency, bandwidth decline, etc., are
increasingly crucial to cloud providers as applications are getting more sensitive to …

Cloud storage plays an important role in today's cloud ecosystem. Increasingly clients tend
to outsource their data to the cloud. In spite of its copious advantages, integrity has always …

The trend towards simple datacenter network fabric strips most network functionality,
including load balancing, out of the network core and pushes it to the edge. This slows …