An exhaustive survey on p4 programmable data plane switches: Taxonomy, applications, challenges, and future trends

EF Kfoury, J Crichigno, E Bou-Harb - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditionally, the data plane has been designed with fixed functions to forward packets using
a small set of protocols. This closed-design paradigm has limited the capability of the …

Extended berkeley packet filter: An application perspective

H Sharaf, I Ahmad, T Dimitriou - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is a lightweight and fast 64-bit RISC-like virtual
machine (VM) inside the Linux kernel. eBPF has emerged as the most promising and de …

A comprehensive survey of in-band control in sdn: Challenges and opportunities

D Carrascal, E Rojas, JM Arco, D Lopez-Pajares… - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a thriving networking architecture that has gained
popularity in recent years, particularly as an enabling technology to foster paradigms like …

A new virtual network topology based digital twin for spatial-temporal load-balanced user association in 6G HetNets

P Jia, X Wang - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamically associating distributed mobile users with proper base stations in 6G
heterogeneous networks (HetNets) becomes critical to achieve both diverse quality of …

A survey on TCP enhancements using P4-programmable devices

J Gomez, EF Kfoury, J Crichigno, G Srivastava - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing performance requirements of today's Internet applications demand a reliable
mechanism to transfer data. Many applications rely on the Transmission Control Protocol …

A packet loss monitoring system for in-band network telemetry: Detection, localization, diagnosis and recovery

L Tan, W Su, W Zhang, H Shi, J Miao… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network measurement provides rich data for network monitoring, control, and management.
In-band network telemetry (INT) is a new network measurement technology that uses normal …

Scheduling in-band network telemetry with convergence-preserving federated learning

Y Jin, L Jiao, M Ji, Z Qian, S Zhang… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conducting federated learning across distributed sites with In-Band Network Telemetry (INT)
based data collection faces critical challenges, including control decisions of different …

Extending P4 in-band telemetry to user equipment for latency-and localization-aware autonomous networking with AI forecasting

D Scano, F Paolucci, K Kondepu… - Journal of Optical …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In beyond-5G networks, detailed end-to-end monitoring of specific application traffic will be
required along with the access-backhaul-cloud continuum to enable low latency service due …

ACC-RL: Adaptive congestion control based on reinforcement learning in power distribution networks with data centers

T Huang, X Lu, D Zhang, H Cheng, P Dong, L Zhang - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Modern data center power distribution networks place greater demands on the stability and
reliability of power supply. Growing network computing demands and complex network …

Load balancing inside programmable data planes based on network modeling prediction using a GNN with network behaviors

WX Liu, J Cai, YH Zhu, JM Luo, J Li - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
In data center networks, existing control plane-and end host-based load-balancing methods
are encumbered by excessively large decision delays during rapid reactions to microbursts …