Tamás Lévai, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Research Fellow at HUN-REN TKI, and a Co-founder/developer at l7mp.io.
His research interest focuses on computer networks and distributed computing, mainly real-time communications, cloud-native computing, service mesh, and low-latency media transmission solutions (e.g., Media over QUIC). His passion projects include experimental forms of audio and visual performances.

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e-mail: levait@tmit.bme.hu

Publications

• Programmable Real-time Scheduling of Disaggregated Network Functions
  Tamás Lévai, Balázs Vass, Gábor Rétvári - IFIP Networking 2024, 2024.
• Supercharge WebRTC: Accelerate TURN Services with eBPF/XDP
  Tamás Lévai, Balázs Edvárd Kreith, Gábor Rétvári - eBPF '23: 1st Workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions at ACM SIGCOMM 2023, 2023.
• Quadrant: A Cloud-Deployable NF Virtualization Platform
  Jianfeng Wang, Tamás Lévai, Zhuojin Li, Marcos A. M. Vieira, Ramesh Govindan, Barath Raghavan - ACM SoCC'22, 2022.
• Batch-scheduling Data Flow Graphs with Service-level Objectives on Multicore Systems
  Tamás Lévai, Gábor Rétvári - Infocommunications Journal 14 (1), 2022. (Pollák-Virág award)
• Semi-Automated Protocol Disambiguation and Code Generation
  Jane Yen, Tamás Lévai, Qinyuan Ye, Xiang Ren, Ramesh Govindan, Barath Raghavan - ACM SIGCOMM 2021, 2021.
• Batchy: Batch-scheduling Data Flow Graphs with Service-level Objectives
  Tamás Lévai, Felicián Németh, Barath Raghavan, Gábor Rétvári - USENIX NSDI20, 2020.
• Resilient Dataflow Graph Embedding for Programmable Software Switches
  Tamás Lévai, Gábor Rétvári - IEEE RNDM 2019, 2019.
• The Price for Programmability in the Software Data Plane: The Vendor Perspective
  Tamás Lévai, Gergely Pongrácz, Péter Megyesi, Péter Vörös, Sándor Laki, Felicián Németh, Gábor Rétvári - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2018.
• Evaluating Software Switches: Hard or Hopeless?
  Vivian Fang, Tamás Lévai, Sangjin Han, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Barath Raghavan, Justine Sherry - UCB/EECS-2018-136, 2018.
• EPOXIDE: a modular prototype for SDN troubleshooting
  Tamás Lévai, István Pelle, Felicián Németh, András Gulyás - ACM SIGCOMM, 2015.
• One tool to rule them all: A modular troubleshooting framework for sdn (and other) networks
  István Pelle, Tamás Lévai, Felicián Németh, András Gulyás - ACM SOSR, 2015.

Side Projects

• HANS A musical experiment, which focuses on the possibilities of human–computer musical interactions in artistic works.
• webtonic A minimalistic web version of Tonic: The Card & Dice Game for Musicians.