README.md

Expressive, Easy to Build, and High-Performance Application Networks

To start using AppNet

See our documentation on appnet.wiki.

To learn more about AppNet

See our NSDI paper.

To start developing AppNet

See our developer's guide on appnet.wiki/developer

Reference

Please consider citing our papers if you find AppNet related to your research.

@inproceedings{zhu2023application,
  title={Application Defined Networks},
  author={Zhu, Xiangfeng and Deng, Weixin and Liu, Banruo and Chen, Jingrong and Wu, Yongji and Anderson, Thomas and Krishnamurthy, Arvind and Mahajan, Ratul and Zhuo, Danyang},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks},
  pages={87--94},
  year={2023}
}

@inproceedings {zhu2025appnet,
  author = {Xiangfeng Zhu and Yuyao Wang and Banruo Liu and Yongtong Wu and Nikola Bojanic and Jingrong Chen and Gilbert Louis Bernstein and Arvind Krishnamurthy and Sam Kumar and Ratul Mahajan and Danyang Zhuo},
  title = {High-level Programming for Application Networks},
  booktitle = {22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 25)},
  year = {2025},
  address = {Philadelphia, PA},
  pages = {915--935},
}

Contributors

AppNet is written and maintained by Xiangfeng Zhu, Yuyao Wang, Yongtong Wu, Nikola Bojanic, and Banruo Liu.

If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch with Xiangfeng Zhu (xfzhu@cs.washington.edu).