A Survey on Data Plane Programming with P4: Fundamentals, Advances, and Applied Research

@article{Hauser2021ASO,
  title={A Survey on Data Plane Programming with P4: Fundamentals, Advances, and Applied Research},
  author={Frederik Hauser and Marco H{\"a}berle and Daniel Merling and Steffen Lindner and Vladimir Gurevich and Florian Zeiger and Reinhard Frank and Michael Menth},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2101.10632}
}
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38 Citations
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Methods Citations
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38 Citations

Telemetry and AI-based security P4 applications for optical networks [Invited]

The potentials and challenges of programmable packet-optical nodes encompassing coherent pluggable modules applied in the context of optical metro networks are presented and two innovative applications of P4-based data plane programmability are presented.

Data-driven Method for In-band Network Telemetry Monitoring of Aggregated Traffic

A data-driven in-band telemetry method to monitor the aggregated traffic of the network at the switch level and approximated model parameters provide information for network management for prognostic purposes and congestion avoidance resource planning when integrating new applications.

Attack Detection and Mitigation using Intelligent Data Planes in SDNs

This work uses decision tree and logistic regression based ML models to identify decision boundaries at the controller site and dynamically translates these decision boundaries into range compressed match-action table rules, enabling switches to filter out attack traffic without needing to consult with the SDN controller for each new packet.

Using Programmable P4 Switches to Reduce Communication Costs of Parallel and Distributed Simulations

  • Shie-Yuan WangN. Kuo
  • Computer Science
    GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference
  • 2022
This work designs and implements a data fusion-based approach inside the packet processing pipeline of the P4 switch that can speed up a PDS by a factor of 2.75 and 1.65 when compared with the unicast and multicast approaches, respectively.

Multi-step Attack Detection and Mitigation Enhancing In-Network Flow Classification

A two-tier flow classification method that integrates initial in-network inference on early subflow metadata with advanced decision support provided by a subsequent machine learning-based analysis step is proposed, allowing for improved accuracies while providing scalable, timely and certain decisions.

A Cache-enabled NDN Forwarding Plane based on Programmable Switches

A cache-enabled NDN forwarding plane using P4 in which massive caching and file transfers are well supported and a dedicated process is designed to take over the cache and communicate with the P4 switch process.

Latency-driven Optimization of Switching Pipeline Design in Network Chips

SPOT is the first automated optimization solution for switching pipeline design in network chips, being utilized in millions of network products of various kinds and saving manual efforts from days to minutes.

In-network angle approximation for supporting adaptive beamforming

This paper proposes a user-assisted in-network method to optimally approximate the angle of arrival by segmenting the cell area into an exponentially binned grid and make use of the advantages offered by programmable data planes and their match-action table (MAT) logic.

A novel programmable software datapath for software-defined networking

It is demonstrated that NIKSS can be used successfully as a P4 software switch, with an acceptable performance gap compared to native eBPF programming, and an extensive performance evaluation is provided, proving that NikSS might be a viable alternative to existing software switches.

Preprint: Open Source Compiling for V1Model RMT Switch: Making Data Center Networking Innovation Accessible

This paper describes the work toward an open-source compiler backend for compiling P4 16 targeted for the V1Model architecture-based programmable switches.

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