Programmable data planes allow users to define their own data plane algorithms for network
devices including appropriate data plane application programming interfaces (APIs) which …

Programmable switch hardware makes it possible to move fine-grained control logic inside
the network data plane, improving performance for a wide range of applications. However …

SmartNICs are on the rise as a packet processing platform, with the trend towards a uniform
P4 programming model. However, unleashing SmartNIC packet processing performance in …

Compiling high-level programs to high-speed packet-processing pipelines is a challenging
combinatorial optimization problem. The compiler must configure the pipeline's resources to …

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have become a critical threat to the Internet.
Due to the increasing number of vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices, attackers can …

A high performance Layer-4 load balancer (LB) is one of the most important components of
a cloud service infrastructure. Such an LB uses network and transport layer information for …

Recently emerging reconfigurable match-action table (RMT) paradigm-based switches
coupled with P4 programming language have opened up the development life cycle of …

Very few of the innovations in deep networking have seen data center scale implementation.
Because, the Data Center network's extreme scale performance requires hardware …

Programmable Data Plane (PDP) has been leveraged to offload Network Functions (NFs).
Due to its high processing capability, the PDP improves the performance of NFs by more …

As network applications are increasingly offloaded to the programmable switches, program
fitting problems come to the fore, which means mapping the programming entities (eg, tables …