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QUIC-FEC: Bringing the benefits of Forward Erasure...

Originally implemented by Google, QUIC gathers a growing interest by providing, on top of UDP, the same service as the classical TCP/TLS/HTTP/2 stack. The IETF will finalise the QUIC specification in 2019. A key feature of QUIC is that almost all its packets, including most of its headers,...
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Dynamic Visualisation of Features and Contexts for...

Context-oriented programming languages allow programmers to develop context-aware systems that can adapt their behaviour dynamically upon changing contexts. Due to the highly dynamic nature of such systems and the many possible combinations of contexts to which such systems may adapt, developing...
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Un cours de réseaux qui touche de plus en plus...

Les réseaux informatiques ont étés inventés il y a environ une cinquantaine d’années. Durant cette période, ils sont passés d’un domaine de recherche pointu seulement connu par quelques spécialistes à une des composante indispensable de notre société hyper-connectée.   La formation de...
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Measurements As First-class Artifacts

The emergence of programmable switches has sparked a significant amount of work on new techniques to performmore powerful measurement tasks, for instance, to obtain fine-grained traffic and network performance statistics.  Previous work has focused on the efficiency of these measurements...
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The superpowers of eBPF in the networking stack

eBPF is the extended Berkeley Packet Filter, a simple virtual machine that has been added to the Linux kernel. This virtual machine implements a simple RISC-like assembly language that enables programmers to inject new code inside the kernel without changing it. This is much more powerful that...
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