Software-defined Networking (SDN) marked the beginning of a new era in the field of
networking by decoupling the control and forwarding processes through the OpenFlow …

Programmable data planes allow users to define their own data plane algorithms for network
devices including appropriate data plane application programming interfaces (APIs) which …

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 …

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 …

Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising technology that provides
flexibility, programmability, and network automation by shifting the network intelligence to …

Large service providers use load balancers to dispatch millions of incoming connections per
second towards thousands of servers. There are two basic yet critical requirements for a …

Traditionally, the networking industry has been dominated by closed and proprietary
hardware and software. Vendors have been controlling the network by hard-coding how …

This paper presents CLB, a programmable switch-based general-purpose in-network load
balancer that can adapt to traffic changes at a very high speed. It uses Weighted-Cost …

Load balancers are a ubiquitous component of cloud deployments and the cornerstone of
workload elasticity. Load balancers can significantly affect the end-to-end application …

The purpose of network load balancers is to optimize quality of service to the users of a set
of servers–basically, to improve response times and to reducing computing resources–by …