Cloud networking

Our team explores all aspects of networking and distributed system research, to design and build the most reliable, highly secured and fastest Cloud networks.

About the team

We constantly evolve cloud networking solutions to provide a great cloud experience to billions of users. Our focus area covers customer-facing networking API design to the network data and control plane programming including HW programming. We exercise the Hybrid Research model by deploying our solutions in the Google Cloud Platform, which is one of the largest and fastest-growing cloud providers in industry.

Our researchers come from diversified backgrounds: networking, distributed systems, network security, kernel programming and algorithms. Many members of our team have extensive research experience with publication in conferences such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, and OSDI.

Team focus summaries

Featured publications

Andromeda: Performance, Isolation, and Velocity at Scale in Cloud Network Virtualization
Mike Dalton
David Schultz
Ahsan Arefin
Alex Docauer
Anshuman Gupta
Brian Matthew Fahs
Dima Rubinstein
Enrique Cauich Zermeno
Erik Rubow
Jake Adriaens
Jesse L Alpert
Jing Ai
Jon Olson
Kevin P. DeCabooter
Nan Hua
Nathan Lewis
Nikhil Kasinadhuni
Riccardo Crepaldi
Srinivas Krishnan
Subbaiah Venkata
Yossi Richter
15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2018
BwE: Flexible, Hierarchical Bandwidth Allocation for WAN Distributed Computing
Björn Carlin
C. Stephen Gunn
Enrique Cauich Zermeno
Jing Ai
Mathieu Robin
Nikhil Kasinadhuni
Sushant Jain
ACM SIGCOMM 2015 (to appear)
Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer
Carlo Contavalli
Cody Smith
Roman Kononov
Eric Mann-Hielscher
Ardas Cilingiroglu
Bin Cheyney
Wentao Shang
Jinnah Dylan Hosein
13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 16), USENIX Association, Santa Clara, CA (2016), pp. 523-535
Evolve or Die: High-Availability Design Principles Drawn from Google's Network Infrastructure
Ramesh Govindan
Ina Minei
Mahesh Kallahalla
Amin Vahdat
ACM SIGCOMM (2016)