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Ribosome accepted at NSDI 2023

Can one process the equivalent of 1 Tbps of traffic on a single server? In our NSDI’23 paper, we leverage disaggregation principles to push the boundary of what CPU-based packet processors can achieve in terms of throughput for a variety of network functions. For the paper PDF click here. This is a joint work with two visiting doctoral students from Roma tre University. All code is available here.

A video of Tommaso’s NSDI talk:

Alireza Farshin’s PhD Defense

We are very happy to announce that Alireza Farshin successfully defended his PhD thesis on March 6, 2023! Prof. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. was  a superb co-advisor (as always!), and Prof. Mark Silberstein was a stellar opponent at the defense seminar. Alireza’s thesis is available online:

Realizing Low-Latency Packet Processing on Multi-Hundred-Gigabit-Per-Second Commodity Hardware: Exploit Caching to Improve Performance

This was a hybrid defense, so here is the Zoom screenshot plus an on-site image:

 

Alexandros’ licentiate defense

Congratulations to Alexandros for defending his licentiate thesis titled “Understanding the Capabilities of Route Collectors to Observe Stealthy Hijacks”! The supervisors are Marco Chiesa and Dejan Kostic. Thanks to the advanced reviewer Prof. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., the special reviewer Prof. Alberto Dainotti, and the examiner Prof. Roberto Guanciale for their thorough work.

You can find more about Alexandros’ work by reading this thesis here.

From left to right: Roberto Guanciale, Alexandros Milolidakis, and Marco Chiesa.

Waleed Reda’s PhD Defense

We are happy to announce that on May 30, 2022 Waleed Reda successfully defended his PhD thesis at both KTH and UC Louvain!  Marco Canini equally co-advised Waleed with Dejan Kostic in the beginning, and by defense time Waleed’s advisors were Dejan Kostic and Marco Chiesa at KTH, and Peter van Roy at UC Louvain. Adam Morrison was a superb opponent at the defense. Waleed’s thesis (the first to come in Dejan Kostic’s ERC ULTRA project) is available online:

Accelerating Distributed Storage in Heterogeneous Settings

Here’s the Zoom screenshot from this hybrid defense: