ANLAB - ANLAB

We seek to address fundamental rules that govern today's Internet and are to govern future Internet.

The Advanced Networking Laboratory engages in high-speed networking research

Networking platforms have evolved from electronic telephone switches augmented with data communication features to packet switches and routers. Today’s network core routers demand 100Tbps of switching capacity, which no supercomputers of 21st century could achieve. Yet hyper-scale datacenters require not only core routers, but also 40G and 100G networking capacity out of a single server. Myriads of middleboxes are transitioning to virtualized NFs. Due to uneven increases in CPU speed, memory/storage capacity, networking bandwidths, accelerator speedups, and more, datacenter are in constant flux of architectural changes, pushing for hyper-scale and/or disaggregated datacenters.

Reusable networking stack

Networking stacks are undergoing dramatic change in order to deliver 10Gbps and 40Gbps out of a single server. Yet, they are reinvented per new high-speed NIC and its SDK. We envision a new abstraction that will keep the core functions intact but let programmers focus on the shim layers for adaptation to new networking technologies. We are building a reusable networking stack in Rust and our goal is to demonstrate competitive performance to existing C/C++ implementations.

Networking system support for disaggregated datacenters

Datacenters are morphing from racks of commodity servers to pools of CPUs, GPUs, memory, and storage. We are investigating networking and distributed systems issues in datacenters.

We are researching how to detect the triggers of hate speech on online social media. We are analyzing how morality and emotions are related to the occurrence of hate speech in conversational contexts. The research includes hate speech analysis with multimodal datasets or with low-resource languages.

Our research is not limited to only the above. If you have fun and wild ideas, just drop by and let’s chat!

For newcomer MS students in 2025 Spring

If you are interested in our group, contact sbmoon (at) kaist.ac.kr (Prof. Sue Moon) or contact (at) an.kaist.ac.kr (student representative).

2025년 봄학기 석사 신입생 중 우리 연구실에 관심있으신 분은 sbmoon (at) kaist.ac.kr (문수복 교수님) 또는 contact (at) an.kaist.ac.kr (학생 대표) 로 연락주세요.