Select Publications – Networked Systems Laboratory (NSLab)

Some of our recent publications are:

“FAJITA: Stateful Packet Processing at 100 Million pps“, Hamid Ghasemirahni, Alireza Farshin, Mariano Scazzariello, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Dejan Kostić, and Marco Chiesa, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2024. To appear
“NetConfEval: Can LLMs Facilitate Network Configuration?“, Changjie Wang, Mariano Scazzariello, Alireza Farshin, Simone Ferlin, Dejan Kostić, and Marco Chiesa, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2024. To appear
“FMM-Head: Enhancing Autoencoder-based ECG anomaly detection with prior knowledge“, Giacomo Verardo, Magnus Boman, Samuel Bruchfeld, Marco Chiesa, Sabine Koch, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (ICPRAI). July 2024.
“Millions of Fast State Insertions on ASIC Switches“, Tommaso Caiazzi, Mariano Scazzariello and Marco Chiesa. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2023. Best paper award!
“DeepGANTT: A Scalable Deep Learning Scheduler for Backscatter Networks“, Daniel F. Perez-Ramirez, Carlos Perez-Penichet, Nicolas Tsiftes, Thiemo Voigt, Dejan Kostić, and Magnus Boman, Proceedings of the 22^nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2023.
“Network Monitoring on Multi-Pipe Switches“, M. Chiesa, F. Verdi, In ACM Special Interest Group for the Computer Systems Performance Evaluation (SIGMETRICS), 2023.
“A High-Speed Stateful Packet Processing Approach for Tbps Programmable Switches“, Mariano Scazzariello, Tommaso Caiazzi, Hamid Ghasemirahni, Tom Barbette, Dejan Kostić, and Marco Chiesa, Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2023.
“Packet Order Matters! Improving Application Performance by Deliberately Delaying Packets“, Hamid Ghasemirahni, Tom Barbette, Georgios P. Katsikas, Alireza Farshin, Amir Roozbeh, Massimo Girondi, Marco Chiesa, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostic, Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2022. Community Award!
“RDMA is Turing complete, we just did not know it yet!“, Waleed Reda, Marco Canini, Dejan Kostic, and Simon Peter, Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2022.
“LineFS: Efficient SmartNIC Offload of a Distributed File System with Pipeline Parallelism“, Jongyul Kim, Insu Jang, Waleed Reda, Marco Canini, Dejan Kostic, Youngjin Kwon, Simon Peter, and Emmett Witchel, Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2021. Best Paper Award!
“Metron: High Performance NFV Service Chaining Even in the Presence of Blackboxes“, Georgios Katsikas, Tom Barbette, Dejan Kostić, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Rebecca Steinert, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), July 2021.
“PacketMill: Toward per-core 100-Gbps Networking“, Alireza Farshin, Tom Barbette, Amir Roozbeh, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2021.
“What you need to know about (Smart) Network Interface Cards“, Georgios P. Katsikas, Tom Barbette, Marco Chiesa, Dejan Kostic, and Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Proceedings of The Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2021. April 2021.
“A Survey of Fast-Recovery Mechanisms in Packet-Switched Networks“, Marco Chiesa, Andrzej Kamisinski, Jacek Rak, Gabor Retvari, Stefan Schmid, Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IEEE COMST) 2021. March 2021.
“Assise: Performance and Availability via Client-local NVM in a Distributed File System“, Thomas E Anderson, Marco Canini, Jongyul Kim, Dejan Kostić, Youngjin Kwon, Simon Peter, Waleed Reda, Henry N Schuh, Emmett Witchel, Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), November 2020.
“Reexamining Direct Cache Access to Optimize I/O Intensive Applications for Multi-hundred-gigabit Networks“, Alireza Farshin, Amir Roozbeh, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), July 2020.
“Path Persistence in the Cloud: A Study of the Effects of Inter-Region Traffic Engineering in a Large Cloud Provider’s Network“, Waleed Reda, Kirill Bogdanov, Alexandros Milolidakis, Hamid Ghasemirahni, Marco Chiesa, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (SIGCOMM CCR), April 2020.
“A High-Speed Load-Balancer Design with Guaranteed Per-Connection-Consistency“, Tom Barbette, Chen Tang, Haoran Yao, Dejan Kostić, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Panagiotis Papadimitratos, and Marco Chiesa, Proceedings of the 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), February 2020.
“RSS++: Load and State-Aware Receive Side Scaling“, Tom Barbette, Georgios Katsikas, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2019.
“PURR: A Primitive for Reconfigurable Fast Reroute“, Marco Chiesa, Roshan Sedar, Gianni Antichi, Michael Borokhovich, Andrzej Kamisiński, Georgios Nikolaidis, Stefan Schmid, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2019.
“Normal Forms for Match-Action Programs“, Felician Nemeth, Marco Chiesa, Gabor Retvari, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2019.
“Make the Most out of Last Level Cache in Intel Processors“, Alireza Farshin, Amir Roozbeh, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), March 2019.
“Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection eXchange“, Pedro Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Lucas Muller, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, Marinho Barcellos, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2018.
“Fast and Accurate Load Balancing for Geo-Distributed Storage Systems“, Kirill Bogdanov, Waleed Reda, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Dejan Kostić, and Marco Canini, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2018 (ACM SoCC), October 2018.
“SIXPACK: Securing Internet eXchange Points Against Curious onlooKers“, Marco Chiesa, Daniel Demmler, Marco Canini, Michael Schapira, Thomas Schneider, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2017.
“Metron: NFV Service Chains at the True Speed of the Underlying Hardware“, Georgios Katsikas, Tom Barbette, Dejan Kostić, Rebecca Steinert, and Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2018
“Rein: Taming Tail Latency in Key-Value Stores via Multiget Scheduling“, Waleed Reda, Marco Canini, Lalith Suresh, Dejan Kostić, and Sean Braithwaite, Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), April 2017.
“Decentralized Fast Consistent Updates“, Thanh Dang Nguyen, Marco Chiesa, Marco Canini, Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research (ACM SOSR), March 2017.
“Lying Your Way to Better Traffic Engineering“, Marco Chiesa, Gabor Retvari, Michael Schapira, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2016.
“On the Resiliency of Randomized Routing Against Multiple Edge Failures“, Marco Chiesa, Ilya Nikolaevskiy, Slobodan Mitrovic, Andrei Gurtov, Aleksander Madry, Michael Schapira, Scott Shenker, Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP), July 2016.
“The Quest for Resilient (Static) Forwarding Tables“, Marco Chiesa, Ilya Nikolaevskiy, Slobodan Mitrovic, Andrei Gurtov, Aleksander Madry, Aurojit Panda, Michael Schapira, Scott Shenker, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom), April 2016.
SNF: Synthesizing high performance NFV service chains, Georgios Katsikas, Marcel Enguehard, Maciej Kuźniar, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, PeerJ Computer Science 2:e98, 2016.
Monocle: Dynamic, Fine-Grained Data Plane Monitoring, Peter Perešíni, Maciej Kuzniar, and Dejan Kostić, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), December 2015.
The Nearest Replica Can Be Farther Than You Think, Kirill Bogdanov, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015 (ACM SoCC), August 2015.
What You Need to Know About SDN Flow Tables, Maciej Kuzniar, Peter Perešíni, and Dejan Kostić, Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), March 2015.