Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging architecture for the next-generation
Internet, providing unprecedented network programmability to handle the explosive growth …

Today's data center operators deploy network policies in both physical (eg, middleboxes,
switches) and virtualized (eg, virtual machines on general purpose servers) network function …

In modern Cloud Data Centers (DC) s, correct implementation of network policies is crucial
to provide secure, efficient and high performance services for tenants. It is reported that the …

Traffic classification (TC) is very important as it can provide useful information which can be
used in the flexible management of the network. However, TC has become more and more …

This paper proposes a new architecture that strategically harvests the untapped compute
capacity of the SmartNICs to offload transient microservices workload spikes, thereby …

In data centers, applications are typically deployed in a distributed manner across servers
via Virtual Machines (VMs). In order to enhance the application security and performance …

With the emergence of network function virtualization, data center start to deploy a variety of
network function boxes (NFBs) in both physical and virtual form factors in order to combines …

Correct implementation of network policies provides secure and high performance network
environment for multi-tenant Cloud Data Center (DC), but at the same time, requires …

Over half the planet's population currently has access to the Internet in some form.
Consequently, Internet usage has increased exponentially on mobile and fixed networks. In …

Data center operators deploy a variety of both physical and virtual network functions boxes
(NFBs) to take advantages of inherent efficiency offered by physical NFBs with the agility …