Roberto Bifulco

Manager of the Intelligent Software Systems Group

NEC Laboratories Europe

Biography

I lead the Intelligent Software Systems (ISS) group at the NEC Laboratories Europe, in Heidelberg (Germany). My main research contributions are related to the design and implementation of computer systems, with a focus on networking. I am also generally interested in the design of computer architectures and programming models, and in the monitoring and analysis of complex networked systems’ behavior. Before joining NEC in 2012, I worked with startups and SMEs in cloud and IoT fields, with relevant work focused on the design of SMEs IT infrastructure virtualization, vehicle fleet monitoring and scalable video-audio sensor data collection. I hold a Ph.D. from the oldest state-supported higher education institution in the world: the University of Napoli “Federico II” (Italy).

In the ISS group, I am lucky to work with a formidable group of colleagues that cover a larger spectrum of topics, including high-performance computing systems, specialized operating systems for cloud servers and embedded devices, software-defined networking and network data analysis.

Featured Publications

Marco Spaziani Brunella, Giacomo Belocchi, Marco Bonola, Salvatore Pontarelli, Giuseppe Siracusano, Giuseppe Bianchi, Aniello Cammarano, Alessandro Palumbo, Luca Petrucci, Roberto Bifulco

November 2020 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 20) - Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award

hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs

Salvatore Pontarelli, Roberto Bifulco, Marco Bonola, Carmelo Cascone, Marco Spaziani, Valerio Bruschi, Davide Sanvito, Giuseppe Siracusano, Antonio Capone, Michio Honda, Felipe Huici, Giuseppe Bianchi

January 2019 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2019, Boston, MA, February 26-28, 2019

FlowBlaze: Stateful Packet Processing in Hardware

Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco

January 2018 CoRR (Presented at SysML ‘18)

In-network Neural Networks

Radu Stoenescu, Vladimir Andrei Olteanu, Matei Popovici, Mohamed Ahmed, João Martins, Roberto Bifulco, Filipe Manco, Felipe Huici, Georgios Smaragdakis, Mark Handley, Costin Raiciu

January 2015 Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2015, Bordeaux, France, April 21-24, 2015

In-Net: in-network processing for the masses

João Martins, Mohamed Ahmed, Costin Raiciu, Vladimir Andrei Olteanu, Michio Honda, Roberto Bifulco, Felipe Huici

January 2014 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2014, Seattle, WA, USA, April 2-4, 2014

ClickOS and the Art of Network Function Virtualization

Recent Publications

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Daniel Thuerck, Nicolas Weber, Roberto Bifulco (2021). Flynn’s Reconciliation: Automating the Register Cache Idiom for Cross-Accelerator Programming. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (ACM TACO).

Oliver Michel, Roberto Bifulco, Gábor Rétvári, Stefan Schmid (2021). The Programmable Data Plane: Abstractions, Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications. ACM Computing Surveys.

Marco Spaziani Brunella, Giacomo Belocchi, Marco Bonola, Salvatore Pontarelli, Giuseppe Siracusano, Giuseppe Bianchi, Aniello Cammarano, Alessandro Palumbo, Luca Petrucci, Roberto Bifulco (2020). hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs. 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 20) - Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award.

Giuseppe Siracusano, Salvator Galea, Davide Sanvito, Mohammad Malekzadeh, Hamed Haddadi, Gianni Antichi, Roberto Bifulco (2020). Running Neural Networks on the NIC. CoRR.

Leonardo Linguaglossa, Stanislav Lange, Salvatore Pontarelli, Gábor Rétvári, Dario Rossi, Thomas Zinner, Roberto Bifulco, Michael Jarschel, Giuseppe Bianchi (2019). Survey of Performance Acceleration Techniques for Network Function Virtualization. Proceedings of the IEEE.

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