Due to the existence of multiple stakeholders with conflicting goals and policies, alterations
to the existing Internet architecture are now limited to simple incremental updates; …

Network emulation is valuable largely because of its ability to study applications running on
real hosts and “somewhat real” networks. However, conservatively allocating a physical host …

We describe Trellis, a platform for hosting virtual networks on shared commodity hardware.
Trellis allows each virtual network to define its own topology, control protocols, and …

Many research initiatives have started looking into Future Internet solutions in order to satisfy
the ever increasing requirements on the Internet and also to cope with the challenges …

Virtualization promises to overcome the weaknesses of the current Internet and to act as a
torch bearer technology for enabling innovative network architectures. However, a …

We present SwitchBlade, a platform for rapidly deploying custom protocols on
programmable hardware. SwitchBlade uses a pipeline-based design that allows individual …

Modern commodity hardware architectures, with their multiple multi-core CPUs and high-
speed system interconnects, exhibit tremendous power. In this paper, we study performance …

The rising cost of electricity has forced business organizations to find new ways to cut
energy spending. This paper studies how to reduce energy consumption in virtual network …

Dynamic application layout is the capability to move the components of a distributed
program among different hosts during the execution of the application. This capability is …

The key to a successful future mobile communication system lies in the design of its radio
scheduler. One of the key challenges of the radio scheduler is how to provide the right …