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The paradigm of network function virtualization (NFV) with the support of software defined networking (SDN) emerges as a promising approach for customizing network services in fifth generation (5G) networks. In this paper, a multicast…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Omar Alhussein , Phu Thinh Do , Qiang Ye , Junling Li , Weisen Shi , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin , Shen , Xu Li , Jaya Rao

Due to the intrinsically inefficient service provisioning in traditional networks, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) keeps gaining attention from both industry and academia. By replacing the purpose-built, expensive, proprietary network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Tianzhu Zhang

The impact of transformer networks is booming, yet, they come with significant computational complexity. It is therefore essential to understand how to optimally map and execute these networks on modern neural processor hardware. So far,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Steven Colleman , Arne Symons , Victor J. B. Jung , Marian Verhelst

As Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are widely adopted in clouds to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNN), such virtualization environments have posed many new security issues. This work investigates the integrity of DNN FPGA…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yukui Luo , Cheng Gongye , Yunsi Fei , Xiaolin Xu

Data plane verification (DPV) analyzes routing tables and detects routing abnormalities and policy violations during network operation and planning. Thus, it has become an important tool to harden the networking infrastructure and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shenshen Chen , Jian Luo , Dong Guo , Kai Gao , Yang Richard Yang

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is very promising for efficient provisioning of network services and is attracting a lot of attention. NFV can be implemented in commercial off-the-shelf servers or Physical Machines (PMs), and many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Amir Varasteh , Marilet De Andrade , Carmen Mas Machuca , Lena Wosinska , Wolfgang Kellerer

With the development of deep neural network (DNN) enabled applications, achieving high hardware resource efficiency on diverse workloads is non-trivial in heterogeneous computing platforms. Prior works discuss dedicated architectures to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xingzhen Chen , Jinming Zhuang , Zhuoping Yang , Shixin Ji , Sarah Schultz , Zheng Dong , Weisong Shi , Peipei Zhou

The last decade has witnessed the proliferation of network function virtualization (NFV) in the telco industry, thanks to its unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. However, as the NFV infrastructure is shared by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Qiong Liu , Jianke Lin , Tianzhu Zhang , Leonardo Linguaglossa

Network Virtualization is one of the most promising technologies for future networking and considered as a critical IT resource that connects distributed, virtualized Cloud Computing services and different components such as storage,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Duc-Lam Nguyen , HyungHo Byun , Naeon Kim , Chong-Kwon Kim

The process of optimizing the latency of DNN operators with ML models and hardware-in-the-loop, called auto-tuning, has established itself as a pervasive method for the deployment of neural networks. From a search space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Dennis Rieber , Moritz Reiber , Oliver Bringmann , Holger Fröning

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging paradigm that turns hardware-dependent implementation of network functions (i.e., middleboxes) into software modules running on virtualized platforms, for significant cost reduction and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Yongzheng Jia , Chuan Wu , Zongpeng Li , Franck Le , Alex Liu

In this paper we present a new approach for distributed DBMSs called P4DB, that uses a programmable switch to accelerate OLTP workloads. The main idea of P4DB is that it implements a transaction processing engine on top of a P4-programmable…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Matthias Jasny , Lasse Thostrup , Tobias Ziegler , Carsten Binnig

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a crucial technology for the 5G network development because it can improve the flexibility of employing hardware and reduce the construction of base stations. There are vast service chains in NFV to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Wenlu Xuan , Zhongqi Zhao , Lei Fan , Zhu Han

In many real-world OpenFlow-based SDN deployments, the ability to program heterogeneous forwarding elements built with different forwarding architectures is a desirable capability. In this paper, we discuss a data plane programming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Haoyu Song , Jun Gong , Hongfei Chen , Justin Dustzadeh

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising virtualization technology that has the potential to significantly reduce the expenses and improve the service agility. NFV makes it possible for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Yicheng Xu , Vincent Chau , Chenchen Wu , Yong Zhang , Yifei Zou

Cloud platforms today have been deploying hardware accelerators like neural processing units (NPUs) for powering machine learning (ML) inference services. To maximize the resource utilization while ensuring reasonable quality of service, a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yuqi Xue , Yiqi Liu , Lifeng Nai , Jian Huang

Middleboxes or network appliances like firewalls, proxies and WAN optimizers have become an integral part of today's ISP and enterprise networks. Middlebox functionalities are usually deployed on expensive and proprietary hardware that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Md. Faizul Bari , Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury , Reaz Ahmed , Raouf Boutaba

This study presents a comprehensive multi-level analysis of the NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture, focusing on its performance characteristics and novel features. We benchmark Hopper's memory subsystem, highlighting improvements in the L2…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Weile Luo , Ruibo Fan , Zeyu Li , Dayou Du , Hongyuan Liu , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) developed Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Management and Orchestration (MANO) framework. Within that framework, NFV orchestrator (NFVO) and Virtualized Network Function (VNF)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh , Diala Naboulsi , Roch Glitho , Constant Wette Tchouati

Due to the emergence of embedded applications in image and video processing, communication and cryptography, improvement of pictorial information for better human perception like deblurring, denoising in several fields such as satellite…

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