reading-list

A recommended reading list in FENGLIN group.

FORMAT: TITLE, venue, 1st author.

• reading-list
  • Hardware
    • Architecture Design
    • Simulation Framework
    • Packet/Flow Scheduling
      • Paper
    • TSN data plane
      • data plane abstraction paper
  • Software
    • Scheduling
      • paper
      • slide
      • blog
    • Clock synchronization
      • paper
      • slide
      • blog
    • End-system packet I/O
      • paper
      • slide
      • blog

Hardware

Architecture Design

paper

1. hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processor on FPGA NICs, OSDI 2020, Marco Brunella, etc. pdf
2. nanoPU: Redesigning the CPU-Network Interface to Minimize RPC Tail Latency, Arxiv 2020, Stephen Ibanez (Stanford). pdf, code
3. PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks, OSDI 2020, Jiaxin Lin (Wisconsin-Madison). pdf, sides, [code

blog

1. What Does RISC and CISC Mean in 2020?

Simulation Framework

paper

1. FireSim: FPGA-Accelerated Cycle-Exact Scale-Out System Simulation in the Public Cloud, ISCA 2018, Sagar Karandikar (UC Berkeley). pdf, website, slide, code
2. FirePerf: FPGA-Accelerated Full-System Hardware/Software Performance Profiling and Co-Design, ALPLOS 2020, Sagar Karandikar (UC Berkeley). pdf

Packet/Flow Scheduling

Paper

1. Programmable Calendar Queues for High-speed Packet Scheduling, NSDI 2020, Sharma (NYU). pdf

TSN data plane

data plane abstraction paper

1. OpenFunction: An Extensible Data Plane Abstraction Protocol for Platform-Independent Software-Defined Middleboxes, TON 2018, Chen Tian (Nanjing University). pdf
2. StreaMon: A Data-Plane Programming Abstraction for Software-Defined Stream Monitoring, TDSC 2013, Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata). pdf

Software

Scheduling

paper

slide

blog

Clock synchronization

paper

slide

blog

End-system packet I/O

paper

1. Commodity Packet Capture Engines: Tutorial, Cookbook and Applicability, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2015, Victor Moreno. pdf

slide

blog

1. Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Sending Data
2. Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data
3. Queueing in the Linux Network Stack