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High-performance networking is often characterized by kernel bypass which is considered mandatory in high-performance parallel and distributed applications. But kernel bypass comes at a price because it breaks the traditional OS…
Recently, RISC-V has contributed to the development of IoT devices, requiring architectures that balance energy efficiency, compact area, and integrated security. However, most recent RISC-V cores for IoT prioritize either area footprint or…
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On top of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), the Route Origin Authorization (ROA) creates a cryptographically verifiable binding of an autonomous system to a set of IP prefixes it is authorized to originate. By their design,…
Software Defined Networking (SDN) offers a flexible and scalable architecture that abstracts decision making away from individual devices and provides a programmable network platform. However, implementing a centralized SDN architecture…
Multi- and many-core processors are becoming increasingly popular in embedded systems. Many of these processors now feature hardware virtualization capabilities, such as the ARM Cortex A15, and x86 processors with Intel VT-x or AMD-V…
This paper describes a radio architecture for distributed spectrum sharing of multiple channels among secondary users (SUs) in a wide band of frequencies and a localized area. A novel Multichannel Immediate Multiple Access (MIMA) physical…
Modern networks run "middleboxes" that offer services ranging from network address translation and server load balancing to firewalls, encryption, and compression. In an industry trend known as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), these…
Contention-based wireless channel access methods like CSMA and ALOHA paved the way for the rise of the Internet of Things in industrial applications (IIoT). However, to cope with increasing demands for reliability and throughput, several…
AI infrastructure has transitioned from a software-centric paradigm to a system tightly bound by physical and environmental limits. Energy availability, cooling capacity, and network connectivity now impose hard operational boundaries that…
This paper presents a security analysis of the InfiniBand architecture, a prevalent RDMA standard, and NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF), a prominent protocol for industrial disaggregated storage that exploits RDMA protocols to achieve…
Virtualization is generally adopted in server and desktop environments to provide for fault tolerance, resource management, and energy efficiency. Virtualization enables parallel execution of multiple operating systems (OSs) while sharing…
We study the important and challenging problem of virtualized radio access network (vRAN) design in its most general form. We develop an optimization framework that decides the number and deployment locations of central/cloud units (CUs);…
Connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) constitute an important application of future-oriented traffic management .A vehicular system dominated by fully autonomous vehicles requires a robust and efficient vehicle-to-everything (V2X)…
Network operators are facing significant challenges meeting the demand for more bandwidth, agile infrastructures, innovative services, while keeping costs low. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud Computing are emerging as key…
Computation intensive kernels, such as convolutions, matrix multiplication and Fourier transform, are fundamental to edge-computing AI, signal processing and cryptographic applications. Interleaved-Multi-Threading (IMT) processor cores are…
The 5th generation mobile communication systems aim to support massive access for future wireless applications. Unfortunately, wireless resource scarcity in random access (RA) is a fundamental bottleneck for enabling massive access. To…