Publications

Daniel Thuerck, Nicolas Weber, Roberto Bifulco (2021). Flynn’s Reconciliation: Automating the Register Cache Idiom for Cross-Accelerator Programming. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (ACM TACO).

Oliver Michel, Roberto Bifulco, Gábor Rétvári, Stefan Schmid (2021). The Programmable Data Plane: Abstractions, Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications. ACM Computing Surveys.

Marco Spaziani Brunella, Giacomo Belocchi, Marco Bonola, Salvatore Pontarelli, Giuseppe Siracusano, Giuseppe Bianchi, Aniello Cammarano, Alessandro Palumbo, Luca Petrucci, Roberto Bifulco (2020). hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs. 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 20) - Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Salvator Galea, Davide Sanvito, Mohammad Malekzadeh, Hamed Haddadi, Gianni Antichi, Roberto Bifulco (2020). Running Neural Networks on the NIC. CoRR.

Leonardo Linguaglossa, Stanislav Lange, Salvatore Pontarelli, Gábor Rétvári, Dario Rossi, Thomas Zinner, Roberto Bifulco, Michael Jarschel, Giuseppe Bianchi (2019). Survey of Performance Acceleration Techniques for Network Function Virtualization. Proceedings of the IEEE.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Martino Trevisan, Roberto Gonzalez, Roberto Bifulco (2019). Poster: On the Application of NLP to Discover Relationships between Malicious Network Entities. Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2019, London, UK, November 11-15, 2019.

Salvatore Pontarelli, Roberto Bifulco, Marco Bonola, Carmelo Cascone, Marco Spaziani, Valerio Bruschi, Davide Sanvito, Giuseppe Siracusano, Antonio Capone, Michio Honda, Felipe Huici, Giuseppe Bianchi (2019). FlowBlaze: Stateful Packet Processing in Hardware. 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2019, Boston, MA, February 26-28, 2019.

Salvator Galea, Andrew W. Moore, Gianni Antichi, Giuseppe Bianchi, Roberto Bifulco (2018). Revealing Hidden Hierarchical Heavy Hitters in network traffic. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Conference on Posters and Demos, SIGCOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-25, 2018.

Carmelo Cascone, Roberto Bifulco, Salvatore Pontarelli, Antonio Capone (2018). Relaxing state-access constraints in stateful programmable data planes. Computer Communication Review.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco (2018). In-network Neural Networks. CoRR (Presented at SysML ‘18).

Davide Sanvito, Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco (2018). Can the Network be the AI Accelerator?. Proceedings of the 2018 Morning Workshop on In-Network Computing, NetCompute@SIGCOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary, August 20, 2018.

Roberto Bifulco, Gábor Rétvári (2018). A Survey on the Programmable Data Plane: Abstractions, Architectures, and Open Problems. IEEE 19th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, HPSR 2018, Bucharest, Romania, June 18-20, 2018.

Nicola Bonelli, Gregorio Procissi, Davide Sanvito, Roberto Bifulco (2017). The acceleration of OfSoftSwitch. 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, NFV-SDN 2017, Berlin, Germany, November 6-8, 2017.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco, Stefano Salsano (2017). TCP Proxy Bypass: All the Gain with No Pain!. Posters and Demos Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 21-25, 2017.

Carmelo Cascone, Roberto Bifulco, Salvatore Pontarelli, Antonio Capone (2017). Relaxing state-access constraints in stateful programmable data planes. CoRR (A revised version of this paper appeared in SIGCOMM CCR, 2018).

Carmelo Cascone, Roberto Bifulco, Salvatore Pontarelli (2017). Relaxing constraints in stateful network data plane design. CoRR (Presented as poster at NSDI ‘17).

Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco, Martino Trevisan, Tobias Jacobs, Simon Kuenzer, Stefano Salsano, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Felipe Huici (2017). Re-designing Dynamic Content Delivery in the Light of a Virtualized Infrastructure. CoRR.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco, Martino Trevisan, Tobias Jacobs, Simon Kuenzer, Stefano Salsano, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Felipe Huici (2017). Re-Designing Dynamic Content Delivery in the Light of a Virtualized Infrastructure. IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

Alessio Silvestro, Roberto Bifulco, Fabian Schneider, Xiaoming Fu, Jussi Kangasharju (2017). MISE: MIddleboxes SElection for multi-domain service function chains. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking, CAN@CoNEXT 2017, Incheon, Republic of Korea, December 12, 2017.

Alessio Silvestro, Roberto Bifulco, Fabian Schneider, Xiaoming Fu, Jussi Kangasharju (2017). Is today's DNS the right solution for middleboxes selection?. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms, CrossCloud@EuroSys 2017, Belgrade, Serbia, April 23 - 26, 2017.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco (2017). Is it a SmartNIC or a Key-Value Store?: Both!. Posters and Demos Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 21-25, 2017.

Luca Petrucci, Marco Bonola, Salvatore Pontarelli, Giuseppe Bianchi, Roberto Bifulco (2017). Implementing iptables using a programmable stateful data plane abstraction: Demo. Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research, SOSR 2017, Santa Clara, CA, USA, April 3-4, 2017.

Marco Bonola, Roberto Bifulco, Luca Petrucci, Salvatore Pontarelli, Angelo Tulumello, Giuseppe Bianchi (2017). Implementing advanced network functions for datacenters with stateful programmable data planes. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, LANMAN 2017, Osaka, Japan, June 12-14, 2017.

Marco Bonola, Roberto Bifulco, Luca Petrucci, Salvatore Pontarelli, Angelo Tulumello, Giuseppe Bianchi (2017). Demo: Implementing advanced network functions with stateful programmable data planes. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, LANMAN 2017, Osaka, Japan, June 12-14, 2017.

Roberto Bifulco, Anton Matsiuk, Alessio Silvestro (2017). CATENAE: A scalable service function chaining system for legacy mobile networks. Int. J. Netw. Manag..

Antonio Manzalini, Diego R. López, Håkon Lønsethagen, Lucian Suciu, Roberto Bifulco, Marie-Paule Odinixi, Giuseppe Celozzi, Barbara Martini, Fulvio Risso, Jokin Garay, Vassilis Foteinos, Panagiotis Demestichas, Giuliana Carullo, Marco Tambasco, Gino Carrozzo (2017). A unifying operating platform for 5G end-to-end and multi-layer orchestration. 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, NetSoft 2017, Bologna, Italy, July 3-7, 2017.

Luca Petrucci, Nicola Bonelli, Marco Bonola, Gregorio Procissi, Carmelo Cascone, Davide Sanvito, Salvatore Pontarelli, Giuseppe Bianchi, Roberto Bifulco (2016). Towards a Stateful Forwarding Abstraction to Implement Scalable Network Functions in Software and Hardware. CoRR.

Roberto Bifulco, Anton Matsiuk, Alessio Silvestro (2016). Ready-to-deploy service function chaining for mobile networks. IEEE NetSoft Conference and Workshops, NetSoft 2016, Seoul, South Korea, June 6-10, 2016.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco, Simon Kuenzer, Stefano Salsano, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Felipe Huici (2016). On-the-Fly TCP Acceleration with Miniproxy. CoRR.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco, Simon Kuenzer, Stefano Salsano, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Felipe Huici (2016). On the Fly TCP Acceleration with Miniproxy. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, HotMiddlebox@SIGCOMM 2016, Florianopolis, Brazil, August, 2016.

Heng Cui, Ghassan O. Karame, Felix Klaedtke, Roberto Bifulco (2016). On the Fingerprinting of Software-Defined Networks. IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur..

Roberto Bifulco, Julien Boite, Mathieu Bouet, Fabian Schneider (2016). Improving SDN with InSPired Switches. Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research, SOSR 2016, Santa Clara, CA, USA, March 14 - 15, 2016.

Apostolos Papageorgiou, Roberto Bifulco, Ernö Kovacs, Hans-Jörg Kolbe (2016). Dynamic M2M device attachment and redirection in virtual home gateway environments. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 22-27, 2016.

Dimitrios Gkounis, Felix Klaedtke, Roberto Bifulco, Ghassan O. Karame (2016). Cases for Including a Reference Monitor to SDN. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2016 Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, August 22-26, 2016.

Fabian Schneider, Roberto Bifulco, Anton Matsiuk (2016). Better ARP handling with InSPired SDN switches. IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, LANMAN 2016, Rome, Italy, June 13-15, 2016.

Roberto Bifulco, Anton Matsiuk (2015). Towards Scalable SDN Switches: Enabling Faster Flow Table Entries Installation. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2015, London, United Kingdom, August 17-21, 2015.

Felix Klaedtke, Ghassan O. Karame, Roberto Bifulco, Heng Cui (2015). Towards an access control scheme for accessing flows in SDN. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, NetSoft 2015, London, United Kingdom, April 13-17, 2015.

Radu Stoenescu, Vladimir Andrei Olteanu, Matei Popovici, Mohamed Ahmed, João Martins, Roberto Bifulco, Filipe Manco, Felipe Huici, Georgios Smaragdakis, Mark Handley, Costin Raiciu (2015). In-Net: in-network processing for the masses. Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2015, Bordeaux, France, April 21-24, 2015.

Heng Cui, Ghassan O. Karame, Felix Klaedtke, Roberto Bifulco (2015). Fingerprinting Software-defined Networks. CoRR.

Roberto Bifulco, Heng Cui, Ghassan O. Karame, Felix Klaedtke (2015). Fingerprinting Software-Defined Networks. 23rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 10-13, 2015.

Thomas Dietz, Roberto Bifulco, Filipe Manco, João Martins, Hans-Joerg Kolbe, Felipe Huici (2015). Enhancing the BRAS through virtualization. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, NetSoft 2015, London, United Kingdom, April 13-17, 2015.

Maurizio Dusi, Roberto Bifulco, Francesco Gringoli, Fabian Schneider (2014). Reactive logic in software-defined networking: Measuring flow-table requirements. International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus, August 4-8, 2014.

Roberto Bifulco, Maurizio Dusi (2014). Position Paper: Reactive Logic in Software-Defined Networking: Accounting for the Limitations of the Switches. Third European Workshop on Software Defined Networks, EWSDN 2014, Budapest, Hungary, September 1-3, 2014.

Julius Rückert, Roberto Bifulco, Muhammad Rizwan-Ul-Haq, Hans-Joerg Kolbe, David Hausheer (2014). Flexible traffic management in broadband access networks using Software Defined Networking. 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2014, Krakow, Poland, May 5-9, 2014.

João Martins, Mohamed Ahmed, Costin Raiciu, Vladimir Andrei Olteanu, Michio Honda, Roberto Bifulco, Felipe Huici (2014). ClickOS and the Art of Network Function Virtualization. Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2014, Seattle, WA, USA, April 2-4, 2014.

Felix Klaedtke, Ghassan O. Karame, Roberto Bifulco, Heng Cui (2014). Access control for SDN controllers. Proceedings of the third workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking, HotSDN ‘14, Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 22, 2014.

Roberto Bifulco, Thomas Dietz, Felipe Huici, Mohamed Ahmed, João Martins, Saverio Niccolini, Hans-Jörg Kolbe (2013). Rethinking Access Networks with High Performance Virtual Software BRASes. Second European Workshop on Software Defined Networks, EWSDN 2013, Berlin, Germany, October 10-11, 2013.

Roberto Bifulco, Fabian Schneider (2013). OpenFlow Rules Interactions: Definition and Detection. IEEE SDN for Future Networks and Services, SDN4FNS 2013, Trento, Italy, November 11-13, 2013.

Roberto Bifulco, Marcus Brunner, Roberto Canonico, Peer Hasselmeyer, Faisal Ghias Mir (2012). Scalability of a mobile cloud management system. Proceedings of the first edition of the MCC workshop on Mobile cloud computing, MCC@SIGCOMM 2012, Helsinki, Finland, August 17, 2012.

Giovanni Battista Barone, Roberto Bifulco, Vania Boccia, Davide Bottalico, Roberto Canonico, Luisa Carracciuolo (2012). GaaS: Customized Grids in the Clouds. Euro-Par 2012: Parallel Processing Workshops - BDMC, CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, OMHI, Paraphrase, PROPER, Resilience, UCHPC, VHPC, Rhodes Islands, Greece, August 27-31, 2012. Revised Selected Papers.

Roberto Bifulco, Roberto Canonico (2012). Analysis of the handover procedure in Follow-Me Cloud. 1st IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking, CLOUDNET 2012, Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012.

Roberto Bifulco, Roberto Canonico, Marcus Brunner, Peer Hasselmeyer, Faisal Ghias Mir (2012). A Practical Experience in Designing an OpenFlow Controller. European Workshop on Software Defined Networking, EWSDN 2012, Darmstadt, Germany, October 25-26, 2012.

Roberto Bifulco, Roberto Canonico, Giorgio Ventre, Vittorio Manetti (2011). Transparent migration of virtual infrastructures in large datacenters for Cloud computing. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2011, Kerkyra, Corfu, Greece, June 28 - July 1, 2011.

Giovanni Di Stasi, Roberto Bifulco, Stefano Avallone, Roberto Canonico, Apostolos Apostolaras, Nikolaos Giallelis, Thanasis Korakis, Leandros Tassiulas (2011). Interconnection of geographically distributed wireless mesh testbeds: Resource sharing on a large scale. Ad Hoc Networks.

Giovanni Di Stasi, Roberto Bifulco, Francesco Paolo D’Elia, Stefano Avallone, Roberto Canonico, Apostolos Apostolaras, Nikolaos Giallelis, Thanasis Korakis, Leandros Tassiulas (2011). Experimenting with P2P traffic optimization for wireless mesh networks in a federated OMF-PlanetLab environment. 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011, Proceedings, Cancun, Mexico, 28-31 March, 2011.

Claudio Mazzariello, Roberto Bifulco, Roberto Canonico (2010). Integrating a network IDS into an open source Cloud Computing environment. Sixth International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, IAS 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA, August 23-25, 2010.

Vittorio Manetti, Pasquale Di Gennaro, Roberto Bifulco, Roberto Canonico, Giorgio Ventre (2009). Dynamic Virtual Cluster Reconfiguration for Efficient IaaS Provisioning. Euro-Par 2009 - Parallel Processing Workshops, HPPC, HeteroPar, PROPER, ROIA, UNICORE, VHPC, Delft, The Netherlands, August 25-28, 2009, Revised Selected Papers.