A hybrid SDN switch based on standard P4 code

Authors
Álvarez Horcajo, JoaquínUniversity of Alcalá Author; Martinez Yelmo, IsaiasUniversity of Alcalá Author; López Pajares, DiegoUniversity of Alcalá Author; Carral Pelayo, Juan AntonioUniversity of Alcalá Author; Savi, Marco
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/48050
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2021.3049570
ISSN: 1089-7798
Publisher
IEEE
Date
2021-01-06
Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Automática
Funders
Comunidad de Madrid
Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha
Universidad de Alcalá
Bibliographic citation
Álvarez Horcajo, J., Martínez Yelmo, I., López Pajares, D., Carral, J.A. & Savi, M. 2021, "A hybrid SDN switch based on standard P4 code", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1482-1485.
Keywords
P4
ARP-Path Protocol
P4 Registers
Forwarding tables
Autonomous path selection
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CAM//S2018%2FTCS-4496/ES/TECNICAS AVANZADAS PARA POTENCIAR LA INTELIGENCIA DE LAS REDES 5G/TAPIR-CM
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CAM//CM%2FJIN%2F2019-039/ES/INTEGRACION DE REDES IOT EN ENTORNOS INTELIGENTES BASADOS EN SDN%2FNFV Y REDES 5G/IRIS-CM
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/JCCM//SBPLY%2F19%2F180501%2F000324
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/UAH//CCG2018%2FEXP-076
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
This paper presents an enhanced hybrid Software-Defined Networking (SDN) layer-2 switch whose behavior is specified by the Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors (P4) language. Its SDN capabilities are enabled by using P4Runtime as control plane protocol to specify the forwarding rules used by its programmable data plane. Additionally, the device is also able to exploit P4 registers for an autonomous self-definition of its forwarding capabilities, with the goal of avoiding an overload of the SDN control plane. Its performance is better than other P4 proposals based on non-standard externs and similar to other platform-dependent implementations.
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