P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors

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Year: 2014  ·  Venue: ACM SIGCOMM CCR  ·  Authors: Pat Bosshart, Dan Daly, Glen Gibb, et al.

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Abstract

If OpenFlow opened the flow table, P4 opened the parser and pipeline. Switches become compile targets — enabling in-network computing from telemetry to consensus offload.

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