In comparison with cloud computing, edge computing offers processing at locations closer to
end devices and reduces the user experienced latency. The new recent paradigm of in …

Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

Traditionally, the data plane has been designed with fixed functions to forward packets using
a small set of protocols. This closed-design paradigm has limited the capability of the …

It is commonly believed that datacenter networking software must sacrifice generality to
attain high performance. The popularity of specialized distributed systems designed …

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have become a critical threat to the Internet.
Due to the increasing number of vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices, attackers can …

Coordination services are a fundamental building block of modern cloud systems, providing
critical functionalities like configuration management and distributed locking. The major …

Memory disaggregation promises transparent elasticity, high resource utilization and
hardware heterogeneity in data centers by physically separating memory and compute into …

Programmable switches have been touted as an attractive alternative for deploying network
functions (NFs) such as network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and firewalls …

Programmable packet scheduling enables scheduling algorithms to be programmed into the
data plane without changing the hardware. Existing proposals either have no hardware …

Load balancing is critical for distributed storage to meet strict service-level objectives
(SLOs). It has been shown that a fast cache can guarantee load balancing for a clustered …