6 papers
Hermes: A General-Purpose Proxy-Enabled Networking Architecture
Behrooz Farkiani, Fan Liu, Ke Yang +3
We introduce Hermes, a general-purpose networking architecture that aims to improve service delivery over the Internet. Hermes delegates networking responsibilities from applicatio…
BACC: Budget-Aware Calibration and Control for Horizontal Autoscaling
Fan Liu, Guanqi Li, Behrooz Farkiani +1
Cloud services must continuously adapt replica counts to fluctuating demand while respecting fixed-period reliability budgets. Many horizontal autoscalers either react to instantan…
Time-Series Foundation Models for ISP Traffic Forecasting
Fan Liu, Behrooz Farkiani, Patrick Crowley
Accurate network-traffic forecasting enables proactive capacity planning and anomaly detection in Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks. Recent advances in time-series foundatio…
Enabling Network Policy Enforcement in Service Meshes
Behrooz Farkiani, Fan Liu, Patrick Crowley
Portable service mesh implementations enable Layer 4 to Layer 7 policy enforcement across heterogeneous infrastructures, yet they depend on the underlying network's connectivity an…
Rethinking HTTP API Rate Limiting: A Client-Side Approach
Behrooz Farkiani, Fan Liu, Patrick Crowley
HTTP underpins modern Internet services, and providers enforce quotas to regulate HTTP API traffic for scalability and reliability. When requests exceed quotas, clients are throttl…
Performance Comparison of HTTP/3 and HTTP/2 with Proxy Integration
Fan Liu, Behrooz Farkiani, John Dehart +2
This paper systematically evaluates the performance of QUIC/HTTP3 (H3) and TCP/HTTP2 (H2) in proxy-enhanced environments. H3 integrates UDP-based flow-controlled streams, built-in…