15 Year Evolution of Smart NICs

The dataset contains three (3) .xlsx files, named Processed1, Processed2, and Manufacturers_Devices.

1. Processed1 contains 370 rows and 7 columns - SN, Document Title, Authors, Publication Year, Abstract, Publisher, and Type.

·         SN = Serial Number.

·         Document Title = title of the article.

·         Authors = Name of the author(s).

·         Publication Year = Year the article was published on IEEE Xplore.

·         Publisher = publisher of the article.

·         Type = the type of Smart NIC considered in the work, could be FPGA-NIC, DPU, or SmartNIC.

2. Processed2 contains 370 rows and 11 columns - SN, Document Title, Publication Year, Research Focus, Application Domain, Sub-Domain, Manufacturer, Device1, Device2, Device3, and Type.

·         SN = Serial Number.

·         Document Title = title of the article.

·         Publication Year = Year the article was published on IEEE Xplore.

·         Research Focus = the research area the article addressed.

·         Application Domain = high-level use case where the SNIC was applied in, e.g., Security.

·         Sub-Domain = specific use case, e.g. Cryptography (which is a sub-set of Security); Manufacturer = maker of the SNIC used in the published article.

·         Device1 = the specific device or device family used by the researchers, e.g., Nvidia Bluefield-2.

·         Device2 and Device3 = if more than 1 device was used in the work, e.g., if the work compared 2 or 3 devices, such as Nvidia Bluefield-2 vs Nvidia Bluefield-3.

·         Type = the type of Smart NIC considered in the work, could be FPGA-NIC, DPU, or SmartNIC. 

3. Manufacturers_Devices contains 380 rows and 4 columns - Manufacturer, Device_DeviceFamily, Type, Publication Year.

·         Manufacturer = Maker of the SNIC used in the research work / published article.

·         Device_DeviceFamily = in some articles the authors specified the exact device and model number used (e.g., Nvidia Bluefield-2 or Netronome Agilio CX 2x40GbE), while in others only the general device family was provided (e.g., AMD Xilinx Virtex 5 or Netronome Agilio CX).

·         Type = the type of Smart NIC considered in the work, could be FPGA-NIC, DPU, or SmartNIC. 

·         Publication Year = the Year the article was published on IEEE Xplore.

There are more rows in Manufacturers_Devices (380) than the two other datasets because some articles used more than one device type. For instance, in a particular article the author(s) compared the performances of Nvidia Bluefield 2 with Bluefield 3. In such instance, two separate rows were created for Bluefield-2 and Bluefield-3.