6 papers
Scalable LLM Agent Tool Access in the Cloud
Mingxin Li, Enge Song, Yueshang Zuo +27
LLM agents increasingly rely on tool calling to act on external systems, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become its de facto interface. Operating MCP at cloud scal…
Enforcing Application-Layer Policies in eBPF
Laurin Brandner, Ayush Mishra, Sebastiano Miano +3
Service meshes have recently emerged as the de-facto standard for deploying microservices. Conceptually, they provide a uniform abstraction for inter-process communication (IPC) be…
Network-accelerated Active Messages
Md Ashfaqur Rahaman, Alireza Sanaee, Todd Thornley +4
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) improves host networking performance by eliminating software and server CPU involvement. However, RDMA has a limited set of operations, is diffic…
Sketch Disaggregation Across Time and Space
Jonatan Langlet, Peiqing Chen, Michael Mitzenmacher +3
Streaming analytics are essential in a large range of applications, including databases, networking, and machine learning. To optimize performance, practitioners are increasingly o…
Phoenix -- A Novel Technique for Performance-Aware Orchestration of Thread and Page Table Placement in NUMA Systems
Mohammad Siavashi, Alireza Sanaee, Mohsen Sharifi +1
The emergence of symmetric multi-processing (SMP) systems with non-uniform memory access (NUMA) has prompted extensive research on process and data placement to mitigate the perfor…
Fast Userspace Networking for the Rest of Us
Alireza Sanaee, Vahab Jabrayilov, Ilias Marinos +5
After a decade of research in userspace network stacks, why do new solutions remain inaccessible to most developers? We argue that this is because they ignored (1) the hardware con…