Yoann Desmouceaux

TL;DR: This paper introduces and compares kernel bypass high-performance implementations of both 6LB and the state-of-the-art load-balancer, showing that the significant system-level benefits of 6LB are achievable with a negligible data-path CPU overhead.

TL;DR: The stateless design of SHELL makes it suitable for hardware implementation, and the implementation of a P4-NetFPGA prototype demonstrates throughput and latency characteristics comparable to other stateless load-balancing implementations, while enabling application instance-load-aware dispatching and significantly increasing per-connection consistency resiliency.

TL;DR: This paper introduces a load-balancer running exclusively within the IP forwarding plane, i.e. in an application protocol agnostic fashion - yet which still provides application-awareness and makes real-time, decentralized decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method for load balancing using segment routing and application monitoring, which can involve receiving a packet including a request from a source device to an application associated with a virtual address in a network, mapping the request to a set of candidate servers hosting the application associated to the virtual address, and encoding the set of candidates as a list of segments in a segment routing header associated with the packet.

TL;DR: Evaluated by way of both an analytical model and network simulation both in generic and in real network topologies with varying background traffic loads, the proposed B.I.E.R.R.-based reliable multicast mechanism exhibits attractive performance attributes: It attains delivery success rates as high as any other reliable multicasts service, but with significantly better link utilisation and no per-flow or per-group state in intermediate routers of the network.