We are very happy to announce the first PhD dissertation in our TCC project. Georgios Katsikas successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “NFV Service Chains at the Speed of the Underlying Commodity Hardware” on September 14, 2018! His supervisors were Dejan Kostic, Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., and Rebecca Steinert.
In our upcoming SoCC 2018 paper, we present Kurma, our fast and accurate load balancer for geo-distributed storage systems. By decoupling end-to-end request completion time into components of base propagation latency, network congestion, and service time distribution, Kurma accurately estimates the rate of SLO violations for requests redirected across geo-distributed datacenters. By operating at the … Continue reading “Our upcoming SoCC paper “Fast and Accurate Load Balancing for Geo-Distributed Storage Systems””
