Tamás Lévai
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 cloud-native computing, LLM operations, and real-time communications. His passion projects include experimental forms of audio and visual performances.
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e-mail: levait@tmit.bme.hu
Publications
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MoQa: Low-Latency Point Cloud Videoconferencing via Cross-Layer Media over QUIC Optimization
Felicián Németh, István Pelle, Balint György Nagy, Tamás Lévai, Matthias De Fré, Casper Haems, Tim Wauters - IEEE 28th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2026. -
Enhancing MoQ Resiliency With Implicit Failover Methods
Zoltán Szatmáry, Felicián Németh, István Pelle, Tamás Lévai - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026. -
Efficient Media Routing for Media over QUIC: Balancing Cost and Latency
Zoltán Szatmáry, Balázs Szenczy, Tamás Lévai - Infocommunications Journal, 2026. -
Elastic Scaling of Real-Time Communication Services
Máté Nagy, Tamás Lévai, Felicián Németh, Aurojit Panda, Gianni Antichi, Gábor Rétvári - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2026. -
MoQ Resilience: Implicit Fast Failover
Felicián Németh, Zoltán Szatmáry, István Pelle, Tamás Lévai - EMS '25: 3rd Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems at ACM SIGCOMM 2025, 2025. -
Programmable Real-Time Scheduling of Disaggregated Network Functions: A Theoretical Model
Tamás Lévai, Balázs Vass, Gábor Rétvári - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025. -
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, 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.
Talks and Blog Posts
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LLMOps 101: Patterns for Taking GenAI to Production
Tamás Lévai - 24th Telecommunications and AI Workshop, 2026. -
One Port to Rule Them All: Turn WebRTC media servers into a single Kubernetes service
Balázs Kreith, Máté Nagy, Tamás Lévai - L7mp Technologies@Medium, 2026. -
Locality-Aware, Self-Adjusting Data Structures: A Case Study in Linux Firewalls
Jonas Köppeler, Gábor Rétvári, Maciej Pacut, Stefan Schmid, Tamás Lévai, Vamsi Addanki - Linux Plumbers Conference 2025, 2025. -
Connecting distributed Kubernetes with Cilium and SD-WAN: Building an intelligent network fabric
Gábor Rétvári, Tamás Lévai - CNCF Blog, 2025. -
Real-Time AI Voice Assistants in Kubernetes
Tamás Lévai - KCD Budapest 2025, 2025.
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.
- WebAcidizator An interactive recreation of a faulty camera called the Acidizator.