Sebastiano Miano

Sebastiano Miano

PostDoc Researcher @ QMUL, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

Queen Mary University London

Biography

I am a PostDoc researcher at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science of Queen Mary Univerisity of London (QMUL).

I obtained both my M.S. and Ph.D degree (cum laude) in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. During the interim between the end of my M.S. and the start of the Ph.D., I have been Visiting Researcher at the EIT Digital Silicon Valley Hub in San Francisco and network consultant for several companies and startup in Italy and USA. Moreover, I have been visiting Ph.D. student at University of Cambridge, UK for 1 year before the end of the Ph.D.

I am particularly interested in programmable data planes and high-speed network function virtualizations with a focus on eBPF and XDP. I am exploring the possibility to build a new model of flexible, efficient and dynamically re-configurable VNFs that are more optimized for the new container-based cloud environments (e.g., k8s).

Interests

  • Data Center Network
  • eBPF/XDP Linux subsystem
  • SDN, NFV
  • Cloud Services
  • Programmable Networks
  • Compilers

Education

  • PhD in Computer Engineering, 2020

    Politecnico di Torino

  • M.S. in Computer Engineering, 2015

    Politecnico di Torino

  • BSc in Computer Engineering, 2013

    University of Catania

Accomplish­ments

Finalist of Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP 2021

Facebook Research Aug 2021
Our research on Re-architecting the QUIC stack for performance has reached the final stage of the Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP 2021.

Best Dissertation Award 2020

Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN) Sep 2020
My Ph.D. Thesis Rethinking Software Network Data Planes in the Era of Microservices has been selected as one of the best Ph.D. dissertations of 2020.

Winner of Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP 2020

Facebook Research Aug 2020
Our research on Automatic optimization of software network data planes has been awarded with the Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP 2020, together with Gianni Antichi and Gabor Retvari.

SIGCOMM SRC Winner

SIGCOMM Aug 2020
Placed at the 1st place of the Student Research Competition (SRC) on the Graduate divisior for the poster: Automatic Optimization of Software Data Planes.

Best SIGCOMM CCR Paper 2020

SIGCOMM CCR Jul 2020
Our paper Securing Linux with a Faster and Scalable Iptables has been selected as the best technical CCR paper of the 2020.

Publications

Sebastiano Miano, F. Risso, M. V. Bernal, M. Bertrone, Y. Lu
March 2021 IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

A Framework for eBPF-Based Network Functions in an Era of Microservices

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Sebastiano Miano, Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Fulvio Risso, Domenico Siracusa, Raffaele Sommese
January 2019 IEEE Access

Introducing SmartNICs in Server-based Data Plane Processing: the DDoS Mitigation Use Case

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Sebastiano Miano, Matteo Bertrone, Fulvio Risso, Mauricio Vásquez Bernal, Yunsong Lu, Jianwen Pi
January 2019 ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Best SIGCOMM CCR Paper 2020

Securing Linux with a Faster and Scalable Iptables

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Sebastiano Miano, Matteo Bertrone, Fulvio Risso, Massimo Tumolo, Mauricio Vásquez Bernal
January 2018 High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR). IEEE.

Creating Complex Network Service with eBPF: Experience and Lessons Learned

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Recent Publications

Federico Parola, Fulvio Risso, Sebastiano Miano
March 2021 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)

Providing Telco-oriented Network Services with eBPF: the Case for a 5G Mobile Gateway

Sebastiano Miano, F. Risso, M. V. Bernal, M. Bertrone, Y. Lu
March 2021 IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

A Framework for eBPF-Based Network Functions in an Era of Microservices

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Sebastiano Miano, Gabor Retvari, Fulvio Risso, Andrew W. Moore, Gianni Antichi
September 2020 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Conference on Posters and Demos - SIGCOMM SRC Winner (1st place)

Automatic Optimization of Software Data Planes

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Projects

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Morpheus

A compiler framework for automatic software data plane optimizations

BPF Iptables

An eBPF-based clone of the Linux iptables

Polycube

A eBPF/XDP-based software framework for fast network services running in the Linux kernel

Recent Talks

Have you ever tried to create complex network service chains with eBPF?

Recently, eBPF has become the de-facto standard for Linux observability, allowing people to retrieve runtime information of software running on a server at unprecedented flexibility and granularity. However, the advantages of this technology are not limited only to monitoring and tracing applications.
Aug 17, 2020 3:35 PM — 4:05 PM Virtual conference

Blu5 Workshop on Kernel-bypass technologies

The goal of this workshop is to present the current alternatives to build userspace network applications using kernel-bypass technologies such as DPDK, Netmap, FD.io. During the first part of the workshop I will present the foundamental concepts behind the technologies, their main APIs and the performance advantages/disadvantages compare to existing in-kernel solutions (e.
Jul 28, 2020 11:36 AM — 11:36 AM Virtual Workshop

Rethinking Software Network Data Planes in the Era of Microservices

In my PhD dissertation, I explore the design space of software packet processing applications within the new “cloud-native” era, and I …
Jul 13, 2020 2:30 PM — 5:30 PM Politecnico di Torino
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