Research

On October 12, Meta hosted its first in-person Networking and Communications Faculty Summit since 2019.

Is a PhD absolutely required to become a researcher in industry? Many people would say yes. However, when we asked this question to YuLing Chen, who’s a production engineer and...

As a continuation of the 2020 Networking request for proposals (RFP), Facebook launched the 2021 Networking RFP with a focus...

Each year, PhD students from around the world apply for the Facebook Fellowship, a program designed to encourage and support...

This paper presents Facebook’s risk-driven backbone management strategy to ensure high service performance throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this paper, we present Facebook’s BGP-based data center routing design and how it marries data center’s stringent requirements with BGP’s functionality. We present the design’s significant artifacts, including the BGP Autonomous System Number (ASN) allocation, route summarization, and our sophisticated BGP policy set.

Academics come to work at Facebook at various stages of their career. Some join right after graduating; others join after...

In this paper we provide a perspective of the scale of Internet traffic growth and how well the Internet coped with the increased demand as seen from Facebook’s edge network.