Remote Direct Code Execution
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Author(s)
Huang, Yibo
Qiu, Yiming
Ding, Daqian
Kon, Patrick Tser Jern
Zhang, Yiwen
Mao, Yuzhou
Bhatnagar, Archit
Chowdhury, Mosharaf
Devadas, Srinivas
Xing, Jiarong
Date Issued
November 17, 2025
Publisher
ACM|The 24th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Citation
Yibo Huang, Yiming Qiu, Daqian Ding, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Yiwen Zhang, Yuzhou Mao, Archit Bhatnagar, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Srinivas Devadas, Jiarong Xing, and Ang Chen. 2025. Remote Direct Code Execution. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 300–307.
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Abstract
We propose remote direct code execution (RDX), which elevates the power of RDMA from memory access to code execution. We target runtime extension frameworks such as Wasm filters, BPF programs, and UDF functions, where RDX enables an agentless architecture that unlocks capabilities such as fast extension injection, update consistency guarantees, and minimal resource contention. We outline the roadmap for RDX around a new CodeFlow abstraction, encompassing programming remote extensions, exposing management stubs, remotely validating and JIT compiling code, seamlessly linking code to local context, managing remote extension state, and synchronizing code to targets. The case studies and initial results demonstrate the feasibility of RDX and its potential to spark the next wave of RDMA innovations.
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HotNets ’25, College Park, MD, USA
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3772356.3772397
