A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
binpac: a yacc for writing application protocol parsers
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Design and implementation of a routing control platform
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
SANE: a protection architecture for enterprise networks
USENIX-SS'06 Proceedings of the 15th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 15
Bro: a system for detecting network intruders in real-time
SSYM'98 Proceedings of the 7th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 7
OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
NOX: towards an operating system for networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
CSAMP: a system for network-wide flow monitoring
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
A policy-aware switching layer for data centers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Flow processing and the rise of commodity network hardware
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Towards high performance virtual routers on commodity hardware
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
RouteBricks: exploiting parallelism to scale software routers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium on Operating systems principles
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SwitchBlade: a platform for rapid deployment of network protocols on programmable hardware
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
PacketShader: a GPU-accelerated software router
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
SideCar: building programmable datacenter networks without programmable switches
Hotnets-IX Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
ServerSwitch: a programmable and high performance platform for data center networks
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Demystifying configuration challenges and trade-offs in network-based ISP services
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
An untold story of middleboxes in cellular networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Design and implementation of a consolidated middlebox architecture
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Multi-resource fair queueing for packet processing
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Making middleboxes someone else's problem: network processing as a cloud service
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Building a power-proportional software router
USENIX ATC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
Multi-resource fair queueing for packet processing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
Making middleboxes someone else's problem: network processing as a cloud service
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
New opportunities for load balancing in network-wide intrusion detection systems
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
SIMPLE-fying middlebox policy enforcement using SDN
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Ananta: cloud scale load balancing
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Demystifying the dark side of the middle: a field study of middlebox failures in datacenters
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
SoftCell: scalable and flexible cellular core network architecture
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
FlowOS: a flow-based platform for middleboxes
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Hot topics in middleboxes and network function virtualization
Efficient Two Dimensional-IP routing: An incremental deployment design
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Enforcing network-wide policies in the presence of dynamic middlebox actions using flowtags
NSDI'14 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
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Most network deployments respond to changing application, workload, and policy requirements via the deployment of specialized network appliances or "middleboxes". Despite the critical role that middleboxes play in introducing new network functionality, they have been surprisingly ignored in recent efforts for designing networks that are amenable to innovation. We make the case that enabling innovation in middleboxes is at least as important, if not more important, as that for traditional switches and routers. To this end, our vision is a world with software-centric middlebox implementations running on general-purpose hardware platforms that are managed via open and extensible management APIs. While these principles have been applied in other contexts, they introduce unique opportunities and challenges in the context of middleboxes that we highlight in this paper.