Publications

Henry N. Schuh, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David E. Culler, Henry M. Levy, Luigi Rizzo, Samira Khan, Brent E. Stephens . CC-NIC: A Cache-Coherent Interface to the NIC. ASPLOS, 2024.

Tao Ji, Divyanshu Saxena, Brent E. Stephens, Aditya Akella . Yama: Providing Performance Isolation for Black-Box Offloads. SoCC, 2023.

Korakit Seemakhupt, Brent E. Stephens, Samira Khan, Sihang Liu, Hassan Wassel, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Alex C. Snoeren, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David E. Culler, Henry M. Levy . A Cloud-Scale Characterization of Remote Procedure Calls. SOSP, 2023.

Jiaxin Lin, Adney Cardoza, Tarannum Khan, Yeonju Ro, Brent E. Stephens, Hassan Wassel, Aditya Akella . RingLeader: Efficiently Offloading Intra-Server Orchestration to NICs. NSDI, 2023.

Yiwen Zhang, Yue Tan, Brent Stephens, Mosharaf Chowdhury . Software Multi-Tenancy in Hardware Kernel-Bypass Networks. NSDI, 2022.

Alireza Sanaee, Farbod Shahinfar, Brent E. Stephens, Gianni Antichi . Backdraft: a Lossless Virtual Switch that Prevents the Slow Receiver Problem. NSDI, 2022.

Brent E. Stephens, Darius Grassi, Hamidreza Almasi, Balajee Vamanan, Aditya Akella . TCP is Harmful to In-Network Computing: Designing a Message-Oriented Transport Protocol (MTP). HotNets, 2021.

Vineeth Sagar Thapeta, Komal Shinde, Mojtaba Malekpourshahraki, Darius Grassi, Balajee Vamanan, Brent Stephens . Nimble: Scalable TCP-Friendly Programmable In-Network Rate-Limiting. SOSR, 2021.

Jiaxin Lin, Kiran Patel, Brent E. Stephens, Anirudh Sivaraman, Aditya Akella . PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks. OSDI, 2020.

Yanfang Le, Mojtaba Malekpourshahraki, Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella, Michael M. Swift . On the Impact of Cluster Configuration on RoCE Application Design. APNet, 2019. Best Paper Award!

Mojtaba Malekpourshahraki, Brent Stephens, Balajee Vamanan . Ether: Providing both Interactive Service and Fairness in Multi-Tenant Datacenters. APNet, 2019.

Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella, Michael M. Swift . Loom: Flexible and Efficient NIC Packet Scheduling. NSDI, 2019.

Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella, Michael M. Swift . Your Programmable NIC Should be a Programmable Switch. HotNets, 2018.

Yanfang Le, Brent Stephens, Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Michael M. Swift . RoGUE: RDMA over Generic Unconverged Ethernet. SoCC, 2018.

Keqiang He, Weite Qin, Qiwei Zhang, Wenfei Wu, Junjie Yang, Tian Pan, Chengchen Hu, Jiao Zhang, Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella, Ying Zhang . Low Latency Software Rate Limiters for Cloud Networks. APNET, 2017.

Brent Stephens, Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift . Titan: Fair Packet Scheduling for Commodity Multiqueue NICs. Usenix ATC, 2017.

Brent Stephens, Alan L. Cox . Deadlock-Free Local Fast Failover for Arbitrary Data Center Networks. Infocom, 2016.

Brent Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner . Scalable Multi-Failure Fast Failover via Forwarding Table Compression. SOSR, 2016.

Brent Stephens . Handling Congestion and Routing Failures in Data Center Networking. PhD Thesis, 2015.

Jeff Rasley, Brent Stephens, Colin Dixon, Eric Rozner, Wes Felter, Kanak Agarwal, John Carter, Rodrigo Fonseca . Planck: Millisecond-scale Monitoring and Control for Commodity Networks. SIGCOMM, 2014.

Brent Stephens, Ankit Singla, Colin Dixon, Wes Felter, John Carter, Alan L. Cox . Practical DCB for Improved Data Center Networks. Infocom, 2014.

Jeff Rasley, Brent Stephens, Colin Dixon, Eric Rozner, Wes Felter, Kanak Agarwal, John Carter, Rodrigo Fonseca . Low-latency Network Monitoring via Oversubscribed Port Mirroring. ONS, 2014.

Brent Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner . Plinko: Building Provably Resilient Forwarding Tables. HotNets, 2013.

Brent Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Wes Felter, Colin Dixon, John Carter . PAST: Scalable Ethernet for Data Centers. CoNEXT, 2012.

Brent Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner, T. S. Eugene Ng . A Scalability Study of Enterprise Network Architectures. ANCS, 2011.

Jeffery Shafer, Brent Stephens, Michael Foss, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox . Axon: A Flexible Substrate for Source-routed Ethernet. ANCS, 2010.