News

Our paper on OTCP: SDN-Managed Congestion Controlfor Data Center Networks has been accepted to the Technical Sessions track of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016), to be held in Istanbul 25-29 April 2016

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Competitive scholarships are available for UK/EU students (and a very limited number for students from elsewhere). Please contact to discuss further.

Two members of our research laboratory have presented at the 1st GÉANT Testbed Service (GTS) workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark. Simon Jouet has talked about the next steps in programmable data plane, while Richard Cziva talked about the challenges and opportunities of container-based Network Function Virtualization (NFV). We thank the GTS team for inviting us.

Following a proposal with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Office of Global Naval Research, we are delighted to announce we will be commencing an international collaboration in late October 2015.

Our paper on GNFC, a framework towards Network Function Cloudification has been recently accepted to IEEE NFV-SDN! In the paper, we reviewed and evaluated the current infrastructural limitations imposed by public cloud providers to deploy Network Function Virtualization (NFV) by tenants and present the design and implementation of GNFC, a cloud-based NFV framework that gives tenants the ability to transparently attach stateless, container-based network functions to their services hosted in public clouds. We evaluated the proposed system over three public cloud providers (Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine) and showed the effects on end-to-end latency and throughput using various instance types for NFV hosts. We are looking forward to the conference in San Francisco next month!