Communication intensive applications in hosts with multi-core CPU and high speed
networking hardware often put considerable stress on the native socket system in an OS …

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of its lower cost and easier
deployment. Several cloud service providers (CSPs) offer serverless computing on their …

The TCP remains the workhorse protocol for many modern large-scale data centers.
However, the increasingly demanding performance expectations—led by advancement in …

Container networking, which provides connectivity among containers on multiple hosts, is
crucial to building and scaling container-based microservices. While overlay networks are …

In recent years, deep learning (DL) has prospered again due to improvements in both
computing and learning theory. Emerging studies mostly focus on the acceleration of …

As the number of CPU cores and the speed of Ethernet NICs keep increasing on server
machines, the network stack in the kernel has become the bottleneck for applications …

Implementing the filesystem in user space reduces development complexity and decreases
dependency on the underlying OS platform. Implementing the filesystem at the user level as …

Overlay networks serve as the de facto network virtualization technique for providing
connectivity among distributed containers. Despite the flexibility in building customized …

Intel SGX provisions shielded executions for security-sensitive computation, but lacks
support for trusted system services (TSS), such as clock, network and filesystem. This …

TCP/IP network stack is irreplaceable for Web services in datacenter front-end servers, and
the demand for which is growing rapidly for emerging high concurrency network service …