Research

Recent draft papers

This is a list of drafts I am currently working on. I hope to see these documents to become papers soon.

• Comparing User Space and In-Kernel Packet Processing for the Edge Data Plane (draft, July 2022)

• A Preliminary Assessment of the Energy Savings of a Fluidified Infrastructure (draft, June 2022)

• Computing Without Borders: The Way Towards Liquid Computing, (draft, Fab 2022)

Recent published papers

• F Parola, L Di Giovanna, G Ognibene, F Risso, "Creating Disaggregated Network Services with eBPF: the Kubernetes Network Provider Use Case," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2022), Jun 2022. (video)

• S Miano, A Sanaee, F Risso, G Rétvári, G Antichi, "Domain Specific Run Time Optimization for Software Data Planes," Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2022), Feb 2022.

• F Parola, R Procopio, F Risso, "Assessing the performance of XDP and AF_XDP based NFs in edge data center scenarios," Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Aug 2021.

• S Galantino, M Iorio, F Risso, A Manzalini, "RAYGO: Reserve As You GO", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2021) Oct 2021.

• M Iorio, F Risso, C Casetti, "When Latency Matters: Measurements and Lessons Learned," ACM Computer Communication Review, Oct 2021.

• F Parola, F Risso, S Miano, "Providing Telco-oriented Network Services with eBPF: the Case for a 5G Mobile Gateway," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2021), Jun 2021.

• S Miano, F Risso, MV Bernal, M Bertrone, Y Lu, "A framework for eBPF-based network functions in an era of microservices," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 18 (1), 133-151, Mar 2021.

Here there is a list of drafts that very likely will never be published:

• Service-based traffic classification (November 2008)

Talks

• Have you ever tried to create complex network service chains with eBPF?, Netdev 0x14, The Technical Conference on Linux Networking, online, Aug 2020 (video also available).

• Toward an eBPF-based clone of iptables, Netdev 0x12, The Technical Conference on Linux Networking, Montreal (Canada), July 2018 (paper and video also available).

• Toward Flexible and Efficient In-Kernel Network Function Chaining with IOVisor, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, Bucarest (Romania), June 2018.

• Live Migration of 5G Services between Heterogeneous Infrastructure Domains, demo presented at ITU Focus Group “IMT2020 Workshop and Demo Day: Technology Enablers for 5G,” Geneva, Switzerland, December 7th, 2016. Youtube video available.

• A Control and Management Plane for IOModules, IOVisor Summit, Mountain View, CA, Feb 27th, 2017.

• 5G Operating Platform: Infrastructure-agnostic orchestration, demo presented at ITU Focus Group “IMT2020 Workshop and Demo Day: Technology Enablers for 5G,” Geneva, Switzerland, December 7th, 2016. Youtube video available.

• Coupling the Flexibility of OVN with the Efficiency of IOVisor: Architecture and Demo, 2016 Fall Open vSwitch Conference, San Jose (CA, USA), Nov 7th, 2016. Youtube video available.

• Introducing IOVisor in OpenStack and SDN Infrastructures, invited talk @ Layer123 World SDN Congress, European Workshop on Software Defined Networks, The Hague, October 2016.

• Exploiting Infrastructure Capabilities to Dynamically Orchestrate NFV Services across Multiple Domains, demo presented at ETSI Workshop “From Research To Standardization,” Sophia Antipolis, France, 10-11 May 2016.

• Orchestration in a real network: a case study, EIT Digital / IEEE SDN Workshop, San Francisco, May 2016. Event photo available.

• User-Defined Service Functions in an SDN-Enabled Network, Telecom Italia TIMUDAY, Rome, June 16th, 2015. Event photo available.

• Towards Slimmer Network Functions in the NFV World (Telecom Italia, November 2014)

• User-oriented Network Functions Virtualization (Cisco Systems, Narus, Telecom Italia, March 2014)

• Revealing the FROG (Telecom Italia, December 2013)

• Research Directions in Network Service Chaining (SDN4FNS, November 2013)

• Some Controversial Opinions on Software-Defined Data Plane Services (SDN4FNS, November 2013)

• Software Defined Networks and Beyond (Narus, October 2013)

• Customizing Data Plane Processing in Edge Router (Cisco Systems, Narus, Telecom Italia, February 2013)

• Filtering Network Traffic Based on Protocol Encapsulation Rules (ICNC 2013, January 2013)

• Customizing Data Plane Processing in Edge Routers (1st European Workshop on Software Defined Networks, October 2012)

• Software Defined Networks and Beyond (Telecom Italia, April 2012)

• Applications Like Bees (Polaris Future Cities Workshop, Porto, October 2011)

• Will low-power CPUs replace network processors in future network devices? (Cisco Systems, Nvidia, Telecom Italia, June 2011)

• A possible future for network processors (Institute Eurecom, Nice, April 2011)

• Pattern matching on GPU devices (Telecom Italia, Torino, December 2010)

Open source projects

Some open source software projects I'm currently involved in:

• Universal Node: is a sort of “datacenter in a box”, hence providing functions similar to an OpenStack cluster, but limited to a single server.

• FROGv4: is an SDN/NFV/cloud service orchestrator that supports multiple heterogeneous domains.

• IOVisor-OVN: it extends the current Open Virtual Networking (OVN) project with a new backend based on the IOVisor technology.

Some open source software project I was involved in:

• WinPcap: a library for packet capture and network analysis for Windows

• WinDump: the porting of the famous tcpdump tool

• Analyzer: graphical network sniffer for Windows

• WebLibrary: a simple tool used to create online documentation, that can be easily printed (maintaining a good looking layout) and includes PowerPoint slides to be used in class.

• 46Bouncer: a simple tool that accepts IPv4/IPv6 connections and translates them to IPv6/IPv4. Useful to make IPv4 servers / applications available on the IPv6 domain

• GT: a tool for extracting ground truth from traffic traces, developed in in collaboration with University of Brescia (Italy)

• iNFAnt: an engine for Non-Deterministic Automata on nVidia GPUs

• Dyn@NG: a simple interface for virtualizing Cisco labs (through Dynamips)

• NetBee: the evolution of the WinPcap library; it offers a much more powerful object-based interface and it implements several modules (packet decoding, packet sniffing, ...) that can be used from external programs. Available for Windows and Linux.