Publications related to Network processor

Building Evolvable Networks : Flexible and Predictable Packet Processing

Software packet-processing platforms- - network devices running on general-purpose servers-- are emerging as a compelling alternative to the traditional high-end switches and routers running on specialized hardware. Their promise is to enable the fast dep ...

EPFL2015

A Novel FPGA Architecture based on Ultra-Fine Grain Reconfigurable Logic Cells

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Gain Kim

In this paper, we investigate the opportunity brought by controllable-polarity transistors to design efficient reconfigurable circuits. Controllable-polarity transistors are devices whose polarity can be electrostatically programmed to be either n- or p-ty ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores

Pinar Tözün

For several decades, online transaction processing (OLTP) has been one of the main server applications that drives innovations in the data management ecosystem, and in turn the database and computer architecture communities. Recent hardware trends oblige s ...

EPFL2014

ADDICT: Advanced Instruction Chasing for Transactions

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün

Recent studies highlight that traditional transaction processing systems utilize the micro-architectural features of modern processors very poorly. L1 instruction cache and long-latency data misses dominate execution time. As a result, more than half of th ...

2014

OLTP in Wonderland -- Where do cache misses come from in major OLTP components?

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün

For several decades, online transaction processing has been one of the main applications that drives innovations in the data management ecosystem, and in turn the database and computer architecture communities. Despite the novel approaches from industry an ...

ACM2013

Rate allocation and optimized decoding in inter-session network coding

Eirina Bourtsoulatze

Recent advances in data processing and communication systems have led to a continuous increase in the amount of data communicated over today’s networks. These large volumes of data pose new challenges on the current networking infrastructure that only offe ...

EPFL2013

Toward Predictable Performance in Software Packet-Processing Platforms

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

To become a credible alternative to specialized hardware, general-purpose networking needs to offer not only flexibility, but also predictable performance. Recent projects have demonstrated that general-purpose multicore hardware is capable of high-perform ...

2012

Controlling Parallelism on Multi-core Software Routers

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

Software routers promise to enable the fast deployment of new, sophisticated kinds of packet processing without the need to buy and deploy expensive new equipment. The challenge is offering such programmability while at the same time achieving a competitiv ...

2010

Smart camera with embedded co-processor: a postal sorting application

Marco Mattavelli, Romuald Mosqueron, Julien Dubois

This work describes an image acquisition and processing system based on a new co-processor architecture designed for CMOS sensor imaging. The platform permits to configure a wide variety of acquisition modes (random region acquisition, variable image size, ...

2008

An IEEE 802.11a baseband receiver implementation on an application specific processor

Andreas Peter Burg

This paper describes the implementation of the complete baseband processing of an IEEE 802.11a receiver on a design-framework for application specific processors. The underlying generic architecture is described, the computational kernels required for an I ...

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Multi-unit global energy management and optimization for network-on-chip applications

Zeynep Toprak Deniz

The problem of energy optimization in multi-core systems (such as single-chip multiprocessors) where the individual energy demands of various processing elements are governed by instantaneous workload requirements is well defined in literature. The signifi ...

EPFL2006

Processor Enhancements for Media Streaming Applications

Pierre Vandergheynst, Sébastien Bilavarn, Eric Debes

The development of more processing demanding applications on the Internet (video broadcasting) on one hand and the popularity of recent devices at the user level (digital cameras, wireless videophones, ...) on the other hand introduce challenges at several ...

Springer, Kluwer Academic Publishers2005

Processeur à haut degré de parallélisme basé sur des composantes sérielles

Ralph Hoffmann

Nowaday, the world of processors is still dominated by the RISC architectures, which foundations have been laid down in the 70's. The RISC concept may be summarized by one word : simplicity. With this concept, much simpler architectures are born, in partic ...

EPFL2004