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8th European P4 Workshop (EuroP4’26)

The 8th edition of EuroP4 will be held between December 7-10, 2026, in co-location with CoNEXT’26 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The exact date for EuroP4 will be announced soon.

EuroP4’26 brings together networking researchers and practitioners to discuss cutting-edge, P4-enabled research and P4-based technology. The workshop provides a venue for presenting and discussing research and projects related to P4, as well as for more broadly discussing the needs of this research community. The workshop aims to forge new connections between researchers who already work with P4, introduce more networking researchers to the P4 community, and seed future top-tier publications, innovation, and contributions to this community.

Topics of Interest

We solicit original, previously unpublished ideas on research and engineering work enabled by P4, and work-in-progress reports in the form of short papers. We further encourage papers that propose new research directions or that could stimulate lively debate at the workshop. We invite submissions on a wide range of topics of interest, including, but not limited to:

  • All aspects of P4-based network protocol research, including design, specification, verification, implementation, measurement, testing, and analysis.
  • Design, analysis, and evaluation of network architectures using P4, e.g., specific algorithms and protocols for network virtualization or future Internet architectures.
  • New applications enabled by P4, including in-network computing and data-driven networking
  • Secure, reliable and dependable P4-based systems, including all aspects of monitoring, verification, debugging and troubleshooting networks enabled by P4
  • P4-based based programmable data planes (programmable switch ASICs, SmartNICs, IPU/DPUs, etc.)
  • New data plane hardware architectures (e.g., for in-network ML, in-network security, etc.)
  • P4 end-host networking, offloading transport- and application-layer protocols to P4- enabled hardware
  • Tools and frameworks for development using P4
  • Contributions to the evolution of the P4 language

Submission Instructions

EuroP4 will use a double-blind review process. Papers should adhere to the ACM formatting requirements and should not exceed 6 pages (see workshop website page for details). Authors are required to present accepted papers at the workshop, and at least one author is required to register, at the full rate, for the paper to appear in the proceedings and the ACM digital library. One of the authors MUST present the accepted paper at the workshop. Exceptions from this policy for truly mitigating situations must be approved by the TPC Chairs before the beginning of the workshop.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: Friday, August 7, 2026 at 11:59 pm PT
  • Posters and demos deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
  • Acceptance notification: Monday, September 14, 2026
  • Posters and demos notification: Monday, September 14, 2026
  • Camera-ready: Monday, September 28, 2026

Contact Us

If you have any questions, please email the TPC co-chairs:

  • h.mostafaei_at_tue.nl
  • vaddank_at_purdue.edu

Chairs and Committee Members

Here are this year’s chairs and committee members.

General Chairs

  • Chrysa Papagianni, University of Amsterdam
  • Davide Scano, Independent

Program Committee Chairs

  • Habib Mostafaei, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Vamsi Addanki, Purdue University

Steering Committee

  • Muhammad Shahbaz, University of Michigan
  • Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon

Publicity Chair

  • Leandro Almeida, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraíba