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SUMMARY:Towards a Stateful Forwarding Abstraction for Software and Hardwar
 e Network Functions - Roberto Bifulco (NEC)
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CONTACT:Liang Wang
DESCRIPTION:An effective packet processing abstraction that leverages soft
 ware or hardware acceleration techniques can simplify the implementation o
 f high-performance virtual network functions. In this talk\, we discuss th
 e suitability of SDN switches' stateful forwarding abstractions to model a
 ccelerated functions in both software and hardware accelerators\, such as 
 optimized software switches and FPGA-based NICs. In particular\, we select
  an Extended Finite State Machine abstraction and discuss its suitability 
 to provide the acceleration of functions such as stateful firewalls\, load
  balancers and dynamic NATs.\nWe further discuss the abstraction’s relev
 ant design decisions\, such as a flow-level programming consistency model\
 , and how such decisions affect the ability to scale software implementati
 ons using multi-core processing.\n \nBio: Roberto Bifulco is a Senior Rese
 archer of the NEC Laboratories Europe’s Network Division (Heidelberg\, G
 ermany). He holds a Ph.D. from University of Napoli "Federico II"\, Italy.
  Before joining NEC\, he worked as consultant for ICT start-ups and SMEs (
 Small and Medium Enterprises). His research activity focuses on the design
  of programmable networks\, with main contributions in the fields of SDN s
 calability and security\, high performance network function virtualization
  and related use cases.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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