Jalal Mostafa

Ph.D. Candidate at KIT | Software Engineer

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Data Processing and Electronics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. I am also a software engineer and open-source contributor to several projects including the Linux kernel, the Cloud Native Data Plane, and others.
Latest News
Jan 2024
"100 Gbit/s UDP Data Acquisition on Linux using AF_XDP: The TRISTAN Detector" has been accepted at IEEE Real-Time 2024
J. Mostafa, D. Tcherniakhovski, M. Balzer, S. Chilingaryan, A. Kopmann, J. Becker, "100 Gbit/s UDP Data Acquisition on Linux using AF_XDP: The TRISTAN Detector," 2024 IEEE Real Time Conference, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 2024
Dec 2023
"Are Kernel Drivers Ready For Accelerated Packet Processing using AF_XDP?" is online now!
J. Mostafa, S. Chilingaryan and A. Kopmann, "Are Kernel Drivers Ready For Accelerated Packet Processing Using AF_XDP?," 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Dresden, Germany, 2023, pp. 117-122, doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN59219.2023.10329590.
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Nov 2023
Best Paper Award for our paper at IEEE NFV-SDN 2023
Last week had a wonderful surprise. Our paper "Are Kernel Drivers Ready For Accelerated Packet Processing using AF_XDP?" won the Best Paper Award at IEEE NFV-SDN 2023
Sept 2023
Our paper "Are Kernel Drivers Ready For Accelerated Packet Processing using AF_XDP?" has been accepted at IEEE NFV-SDN 2023
Sept 2022
My first patch to the Linux kernel has been accepted!
The patch is a fix to the new XDP sockets in the Linux kernel. It will improve the performance of the kernel-bypassing packet-processing technology by 2-3x! It enables XDP_USE_NEED_WAKEUP on AF_XDP sockets with XDP_SHARED_UMEM flag. The fix appears in 5.10.148, 5.15.73, 5.19.15, and 6.0.1 in addition to 6.1+
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July 2022
SciTS paper is online!
J. Mostafa, S. Wehbi, S. Chilingaryan, and A. Kopmann. 2022. SciTS: A Benchmark for Time-Series Databases in Scientific Experiments and Industrial Internet of Things. In 34th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–11.
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