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Mihai Dobrescu

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Building Evolvable Networks : Flexible and Predictable Packet Processing

Software packet-processing platforms- - network devices running on general-purpose servers-- are emerging as a compelling alternative to the traditional high-end switches and routers running on specialized hardware. Their promise is to enable the fast dep ...

EPFL2015

Software Dataplane Verification

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

The industry is in the mood for programmable networks, where an operator can dynamically deploy network functions on network devices, akin to how one deploys virtual machines on physical machines in a cloud environment. Such flexibility brings along the th ...

Association for Computing Machinery2015

Software Dataplane Verification

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

Software dataplanes are emerging as an alternative to traditional hardware switches and routers, promising programmability and short time to market. These advantages are set against the risk of disrupting the network with bugs, unpredictable performance, o ...

2014

Toward a Verifiable Software Dataplane

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

Software dataplanes are emerging as an alternative to traditional hardware switches and routers, promising programmability and short time to market. These advantages are set against the concern of introducing buggy or under-performing code into the network ...

2013

Toward Predictable Performance in Software Packet-Processing Platforms

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

To become a credible alternative to specialized hardware, general-purpose networking needs to offer not only flexibility, but also predictable performance. Recent projects have demonstrated that general-purpose multicore hardware is capable of high-perform ...

2012

Controlling Parallelism on Multi-core Software Routers

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

Software routers promise to enable the fast deployment of new, sophisticated kinds of packet processing without the need to buy and deploy expensive new equipment. The challenge is offering such programmability while at the same time achieving a competitiv ...

2010

RouteBricks: Exploiting Parallelism to Scale Software Routers

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

We revisit the problem of scaling software routers, motivated by recent advances in server technology that enable high-speed parallel processing---a feature router workloads appear ideally suited to exploit. We propose a software router architecture that p ...

ACM2009