Enabling Fast and Stable Service Mesh Communication via Piggyback Layer-7 Traffic Control on Programmable Switches. Chen, G., Li, J., Xu, Y., Ke, B., Lan, Z., Ge, W., Shen, H., Lv, J., Gu, T., Xu, C., & Ye, K. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Tokyo, Japan, May, 2026. abstract bibtex Service mesh has become an essential infrastructure for managing cloud-native microservices, widely adopted by major providers to streamline service orchestration and reduce operational overhead. A core component of service mesh architecture is the sidecar proxy, managing policy-based routing, Layer-7 load balancing, and related functions. Traditional per-pod distributed sidecar deployments route all inter-pod communication through local proxies, introducing substantial resource consumption and inefficiencies. Recent approaches advocate for centralized proxy deployments to offload compute-intensive modules to gateway nodes; however, this design introduces non-trivial traffic detours and exacerbates network congestion.
@inproceedings{chen_enabling_2026,
address = {Tokyo, Japan},
title = {Enabling {Fast} and {Stable} {Service} {Mesh} {Communication} via {Piggyback} {Layer}-7 {Traffic} {Control} on {Programmable} {Switches}},
abstract = {Service mesh has become an essential infrastructure for managing cloud-native microservices, widely adopted by major providers to streamline service orchestration and reduce operational overhead. A core component of service mesh architecture is the sidecar proxy, managing policy-based routing, Layer-7 load balancing, and related functions. Traditional per-pod distributed sidecar deployments route all inter-pod communication through local proxies, introducing substantial resource consumption and inefficiencies. Recent approaches advocate for centralized proxy deployments to offload compute-intensive modules to gateway nodes; however, this design introduces non-trivial traffic detours and exacerbates network congestion.},
language = {en},
booktitle = {Proc. of {IEEE} {International} {Conference} on {Computer} {Communications} ({INFOCOM})},
author = {Chen, Gonglong and Li, Jiacong and Xu, Yuxin and Ke, Baiyan and Lan, Zhitao and Ge, Wenxing and Shen, Haiying and Lv, Jiamei and Gu, Tao and Xu, Chengzhong and Ye, Kejiang},
month = may,
year = {2026},
}
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