Register to attend this P4 Developer Days webinar, “Programmable Hardware Emulation Environment for Realistic and Scalable Network Testing”
Date: December 10, 2025
Time: 8:00am Pacific
Abstract
Network emulators are essential for testing and validating new networking solutions before deployment. In this presentation, we will showcase a hardware-based emulation framework that brings programmable switches and SmartNIC awareness to network experimentation. Our environment enables realistic and scalable evaluation of offloading, host interaction, and in-network processing. Through a simple API, researchers can define and deploy multi-switch, multi-host topologies; configure diverse link characteristics (e.g., bandwidth, latency, packet loss); and generate realistic traffic patterns. Finally, we validate the environment using multiple state-of-the-art scenarios, assessing robustness by reproducing and extending prior experiments across an expanded evaluation space.
Speakers
Fabricio Rodriguez received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in 2018 and 2024, respectively. He was a researcher with the Information Networking Technologies Research Innovation Group (INTRIG), participating in projects with Ericsson, Padtec, and RNP. He is currently a Research Scientist at Telefónica Research, Spain. His research interests include programmable networks, in-network applications, security, and network performance.
Francisco Vogt received the bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Federal University of Pampa and the master’s degree in computer engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. He is currently a Visiting Researcher with the University of Amsterdam and works with the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) Research Group. He is involved as a Researcher with Ericsson on the project “SMARTNESS 2030: SMART NEtworks and ServiceS for 2030.” His research interests include programmable networks, network monitoring, network function offloading, and network testing.
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