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 …

Hardware/software hybrid flow table is common in modern commodity network devices, such
as NFV servers, smart NICs and SDN/OVS switches. The overall forwarding performance of …

Control and management plane applications such as serverless function orchestration and
4G/5G control plane functions are offloaded to smartNICs to reduce communication and …

Network Function Virtualization has dramatically increased the flexibility in the deployment
of network services, however the execution of virtual functions on compute nodes equipped …

As the fifth generation of mobile networks move into the cloud, there is a need to develop
new and more flexible monitoring systems. In-band Network Telemetry (INT) has begun to …

Emulation platforms supporting Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) allow developers to
rapidly prototype network services. None of the available platforms, however, supports …

We propose a high-speed packet forwarding architecture on general-purpose servers, in
which a Network Interface Card (NIC) drives packet forwarding by direct packet transfer to …

Recent advancements in programmable network hardware such as smartNICs (eg, NPU,
DPU, FPGA) 1 and programmable switches (eg, Intel Tofino) have created opportunities to …

One of the key aspects hindering NFV adoption is the VNF performance, which is well below
middleboxes. The offload of parts of a VNF into programmable data planes presents an …