Cloud computing is a commercial and economic paradigm that has gained traction since
2006 and is presently the most significant technology in IT sector. From the notion of cloud …

Data centers are critical, energy-hungry infrastructures that run large-scale Internet-based
services. Energy consumption models are pivotal in designing and optimizing energy …

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

The conventional wisdom is that aggressive networking requirements, such as high packet
rates for small messages and μs-scale tail latency, are best addressed outside the kernel, in …

Energy proportionality and workload consolidation are important objectives towards
increasing efficiency in large-scale datacenters. Our work focuses on achieving these goals …

Routers and switches are major contributors to the energy consumption of modern networks.
Today, many energy efficiency metrics for these high-capacity devices are coarse-grained …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising network architecture concept to reduce
operational costs. In legacy networks, network functions, such as firewall or TCP …

The concerns about environmental impacts, electricity cost, and energy needs of data
centers are mounting. These concerns have given significant impetus to consider energy …

Emerging microservices demand flexible low-latency processing of network functions in
virtualized environments, eg, as containerized network functions (CNFs). While ensuring …

The Internet is one of the fastest increasing contributors to carbon emission. Content
distribution as video on demand constitutes the majority of the Internet traffic. In order to …