Programmable data planes allow users to define their own data plane algorithms for network
devices including appropriate data plane application programming interfaces (APIs) which …

The cloud gateway is essential in the public cloud as the central hub of cloud traffic. We
show that horizontal scaling of software gateways, once sustainable for years, is no longer …

This paper presents CLB, a programmable switch-based general-purpose in-network load
balancer that can adapt to traffic changes at a very high speed. It uses Weighted-Cost …

This work presents P4TE, an in-band traffic monitoring, load-aware packet forwarding, and
flow rate controlling mechanism for traffic engineering in fat-tree topology-based data center …

The purpose of network load balancers is to optimize quality of service to the users of a set
of servers–basically, to improve response times and to reducing computing resources–by …

Large service providers use load balancers to dispatch millions of incoming connections per
second towards thousands of servers. There are two basic yet critical requirements for a …

In order to dynamically manage and update networking policies in cloud data centers,
Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) use, and therefore actively collect, networking state …

Network functions (NFs) play an important role in ensuring network security and
performance. To improve the NF throughput performance, an emerging method is to offload …

Load-Balancers play an important role in data centers as they distribute network flows
across application servers and guarantee per-connection consistency. It is hard however to …

Nowadays, load balancing is more and more important for huge data centers. Most data
centers usually adopt a software-based load balancer (LB), which consumes too many …