Networks have dramatically changed our daily life and infiltrated all aspects of human
society. At the same time when we enjoy the convenience and benefits brought by the …

In Software Defined Networking (SDN) the control plane is physically separate from the
forwarding plane. Control software programs the forwarding plane (eg, switches and routers) …

Most network management tasks in software-defined networks (SDN) involve two stages:
measurement and control. While many efforts have been focused on network control APIs for …

Programmable switching chips are becoming more commonplace, along with new packet
processing languages to configure the forwarding behavior. Our paper explores the design …

Consensus mechanisms for ensuring consistency are some of the most expensive
operations in managing large amounts of data. Often, there is a trade off that involves …

Packet parsing is necessary at all points in the modern networking infrastructure, to support
packet classification and security functions, as well as for protocol implementation …

We present SwitchBlade, a platform for rapidly deploying custom protocols on
programmable hardware. SwitchBlade uses a pipeline-based design that allows individual …

The P4 programming language [29, 16] has been recently proposed as a high-level
language to program the forwarding plane of programmable packet processors, spanning …

Specialized execution using spatial architectures provides energy efficient computation, but
requires effective algorithms for spatially scheduling the computation. Generally, this has …

Many network functions executed in modern datacenters, eg, load balancing, application-
level QoS, and congestion control, exhibit three common properties at the data-plane: they …