Prof. Christian Rothenberg will introduce the SMARTNESS 2030 research center initiative and present selected ongoing research tracks around network softwarization leveraging state-of-the-art open source and open hardware technologies:
– Hybrid-p4-5G – Hybrid P4 Programmable Pipelines for 5G gNodeB and User Plane Functions
– P7 – P4 Programmable Patch Panel: an instant 100G emulated network testbed in a Tofino pizza box
– EFFECTOR – Encrypted DASH QoE Performance Evaluation Framework with 5G Datasets
– QoEyes – Virtual Reality Streaming QoE Estimation through ML techniques and Programmable Data Planes
– PoD acceleration – Offloading K8 container networking functions and service mesh crypto functions (eg. kTLS) to programmable SmartNICs/IPUs
Speaker
Dr. Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Associate Professor, University of Campinas, and head of INTRIG Lab
Conversation Leader
Simone Ferlin-Reiter, Senior Performance Engineer, Red Hat