In the context of rapid technological advancements and the increasing availability of Open
Educational Resources (OER), there is a growing need to foster complex thinking skills in …

Hardware offloaded network stacks are widely adopted in modern datacenters to meet the
demand for high throughput, ultra-low latency and low CPU overhead. To fully leverage their …

Physical laboratories for practical classrooms in computer networks can be prohibitively
expensive, as well as requiring regular hardware/software upgrades. With Netkit and similar …

Many application server backends leverage container technologies to support workloads
formed of short-lived, but potentially I/O-intensive, operations. The latency at which container …

Our modern society and competitive economy depend on a strong digital foundation and, in
turn, on sustained research and innovation in computer systems and networks (CompSys) …

Automated feedback and grading platforms can require substantial effort when encoding
new programming exercises for first-year students. Such exercises are usually simple but …

There are currently many different types and dispersed online educational resources, which
inconvenience users and result in a low utilisation rate of resources. As a result, a new …

Learning computer networks requires to understand the interactions between various
protocols and layers. While using virtual labs in networking courses is key to enable …

Interactive multiplayer games rely on the network to ensure a smooth and responsive
experience. When the latency between a game server and a client is beyond a threshold …

Cloud data centers are a critical infrastructure for modern Internet services such as web
search, social networking and e-commerce. However, the gradual slow-down of Moore's law …