4 papers
Automating Conflict-Aware ACL Configurations with Natural Language Intents
Wenlong Ding, Jianqiang Li, Zhixiong Niu +3
ACL configuration is essential for managing network flow reachability, yet its complexity grows significantly with topologies and pre-existing rules. To carry out ACL configuration…
Performance Prediction of On-NIC Network Functions with Multi-Resource Contention and Traffic Awareness
Shaofeng Wu, Qiang Su, Zhixiong Niu +1
Network function (NF) offloading on SmartNICs has been widely used in modern data centers, offering benefits in host resource saving and programmability. Co-running NFs on the same…
NetKernel: Making Network Stack Part of the Virtualized Infrastructure
Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu, Peng Cheng +4
This paper presents a system called NetKernel that decouples the network stack from the guest virtual machine and offers it as an independent module. NetKernel represents a new par…
Benchmarking NFV Software Dataplanes
Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu, Yongqiang Tian +3
A key enabling technology of NFV is software dataplane, which has attracted much attention in both academia and industry recently. Yet, till now there is little understanding about…