In our recent conference paper, we exploited the characteristics of non-uniform cache architecture (NUCA) in recent Intel processors to introduce a new memory management scheme. The results of our work showed that our proposed scheme could reduce the tail latencies in latency-critical Network Function Virtualization (NFV) service chains by 21.5%. Furthermore, our work demonstrated that optimizing the computer systems and taking advantage of nanosecond improvements could have a higher impact on the performance of networking applications. 

This is joint work with Amir Roozbeh (Ericsson Research/KTH), Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. (KTH) and Dejan Kostic (KTH).

Please follow the links for the paper and the presentation slides.