Networking

Networks and networking.

Data provenance at internet scale: architecture, experiences, and the road ahead

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Data provenance at Internet scale: Architecture, experiences, and the road ahead Chen et al., CIDR 2017 Provenance within the context of a single database has been reasonably well studied. In this paper though, Chen et al., explore what happens when you try to trace provenance in a distributed setting and at larger scale. The context ... Continue Reading

FaSST: Fast, scalable and simple distributed transactions with two-sided (RDMA) datagram RPCs

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FaSST: Fast, scalable and simple distributed transactions with two-sided (RDMA) datagram rpcs Kalia et al., OSDI 2016 Back in January I wrote a short piece entitled ‘All change please’ looking at some of the hardware changes making their way to our datacenters and the implications. One of those changes is super-fast networking (as exploited by ... Continue Reading

E2: A framework for NFV applications

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E2: A Framework for NFV Applications Palkar et al. SOSP 2015 Today we move into the second part of the Research for Practice article, which is a selection of papers from Justine Sherry on Network Function Virtualization. We start with 'E2,' which seeks to address the proliferation and duplication of network function (NF) specific management ... Continue Reading

Universal Packet Scheduling

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Universal Packet Scheduling - Mittal et al. 2015 (presented at NSDI '16) Is there a universal scheduling algorithm, such that simply by changing its configuration parameters, we can produce any desired schedule? In Universal Packet Scheduling, Mittal et al. show us that in theory there can be no Universal Packet Scheduling (UPS) algorithm which achieves ... Continue Reading

Not-quite-so-broken TLS: lessons in re-engineering a security protocol specification and implementation

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Not-quite-so-broken TLS: lessons in re-engineering a security protocol specification and implementation - Kaloper-Meršinjak et al. 2015 Update: fixed broken paper link above. On the surface this is a paper about a TLS implementation, but the really interesting story to me is the attempt to 'do it right,' and the techniques and considerations involved in that ... Continue Reading