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SUMMARY:Practical convergence of middleboxes and software
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DESCRIPTION:Rishabh Iyer\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. Edoua
 rd Bugnion\nThesis advisor: Prof. George Candea\nCo-examiner: Prof. Christ
 oph Koch\n\nAbstract\nWe are witnessing a growing push within the networki
 ng community to replace dedicated hardware middleboxes with software imple
 mentations running on commodity hardware. \nThis push is driven by potent
 ial reductions in capital and operating expenses\, improved flexibility an
 d shorter time to market. \nHowever\, before software middlebox implement
 ations become mainstream\, they must overcome certain challenges.\nThis re
 port outlines three instances of prior work that attempt to overcome three
  such challenges\, before introducing the research proposal that attempts 
 to mitigate a fourth. \nFirst\, E2  describes a runtime framework for NF
 V applications in a bid to automate and consolidate NF management.\nNext\,
  NetBricks  outlines an execution environment for NFs that provides effic
 ient inter-NF isolation in the NFV paradigm.\nThird\, VigNAT details a too
 lchain for formally verifying NFs to overcome programming errors that can 
 creep into the dataplane.\nFinally\, we introduce Bolt\, a system that pre
 dicts NF performance in a bid to quantify the performance variability inhe
 rent to software running on general purpose hardware\n\nBackground papers\
 nE2: a framework for NFV applications\, by Palkar\, S.\, et al.\nNetBricks
 : Taking the V out of NFV\, by Panda\, A.\, et al.\nA formally verified NA
 T\, by Zaostrovnykh\, A.\, et al.\n 
LOCATION:INN 326 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=INN326
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