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

Programmable data plane technologies enable the systematic reconfiguration of the low-
level processing steps applied to network packets and are key drivers toward realizing the …

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

Datacenter systems and I/O devices now run at single-digit microsecond latencies, requiring
ns-scale operating systems. Traditional kernel-based operating systems impose an …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers a way to shorten the cloud servicing delay by building
the small-scale cloud infrastructures at the network edge, which are in close proximity to the …

In this paper we present Metron, a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that
achieves high resource utilization by jointly exploiting the underlying network and …

Emerging applications and operational scenarios raise strict requirements for long-distance
data transmission, driving network operators to design wide area networks from a new …

By replacing traditional hardware-based middleboxes with software-based Virtual Network
Functions (VNFs) running on general-purpose servers, network function virtualization …

In modern (Intel) processors, Last Level Cache (LLC) is divided into multiple slices and an
undocumented hashing algorithm (aka Complex Addressing) maps different parts of …

While the current literature typically focuses on load-balancing among multiple servers, in
this paper, we demonstrate the importance of load-balancing within a single machine …