Publications « P4 – Language Consortium

Journals

“Tracking Normalized Network Traffic Entropy to Detect DDoS Attacks in P4.” Damu Ding, Marco Savi, Domenico Siracusa. September 29, 2021. In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
“BitMatrix: A Multipurpose Sketch for Monitoring of Multi-tenant Networks.” Regis Francisco Teles Martins, Rodolfo da Silva Villaça, Fábio L. Verdi. July 11, 2021. In Journal of Network and Systems Management.
“Extending P4 In-Band Telemetry to User Equipment for Latency and Localization-aware Autonomous Networking with AI Forecasting.” Davide Scano, Francesco Paolucci, Koteswararao Kondepu, Andrea Sgabelluri, Luca Valcarenghi, Filippo Cugini. July 1, 2021. In Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.
“TEL: Low-Latency Failover Traffic Engineering in Data Plane.” Habib Mostafaei, Mohammad Shojafar, Mauro Conti. July 2021. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
“An Exhaustive Survey on P4 Programmable Data Plane Switches: Taxonomy, Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends.” Elie Kfoury, Jorge Crichigno, Elias Bou-Harb. June 07, 2021. In IEEE Access (2021, Volume: 9).
“In-Network DDoS Victim Identification Using Programmable Commodity Switches.” Damu Ding, Marco Savi, Federico Pederzolli, Mauro Campanella, Domenico Siracusa. June 01, 2021. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 1191-1202.
“A Hybrid SDN Switch Based on Portable P4 Code.” Joaquin Alvarez-Horcajo, Isaias Martinez-Yelmo, Diego Lopez-Parajes, Juan Antonio Carral, Marco Savi. May 01, 2021. In IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1482-1485.
“A Survey on Data Plane Programming with P4: Fundamentals, Advances, and Applied Research.” Frederik Hauser, Marco Haberle, Daniel Merling, Steffen Lindner, Vladimir Gurevich, Florian Zeiger, Reinhard Frank, and Michael Menth. May 2021. Submitted for possible publication in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST).
“Efficient File Dissemination in Data Center Networks with Priority-based Adaptive Multicast.” Shouxi Luo, Hongfang Yu, Ke Li, Huanlai Xing. April 2020. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
“An Incrementally-deployable P4-enabled Architecture for Network-wide Heavy-hitter Detection.” Damu Ding, Marco Savi, Gianni Antichi, Domenico Siracusa. January 23, 2020. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 75-88.
“Towards a Sweet Spot of Dataplane Programmability, Portability and Performance: On the Scalability of Multi-Architecture P4 Pipelines.” P. Gyanesh Kumar Patra, Fabricio E. Rodriguez Cesen, Juan Sebastian Mejia, Daniel Lazkani Feferman, Levente Csikor, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, and Gergely Pongracz. September 2018. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
“P4-to-VHDL: Automatic Generation of High-Speed Input and Output Network Blocks.” Pavel Benáček, Viktor Puš, Hana Kubátová, and Tomáš Čejka. February 2018. In Microprocessors and Microsystems journal (MICPRO).
“Data Plane Programmability Beyond OpenFlow: Opportunities and Challenges for Network and Service Operations and Management.” Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Jonatas Adilson Marques, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. September 2017. In Journal of Network and Systems Management.
“The P4-16 Programming Language.” Mihai Budiu, and Chris Dodd. August 2017. In ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (OSR), Vol. 51, no 1.
“Programming the Network Dataplane in P4 (in Chinese).” Changhoon Kim, Ron Kao, and Nick McKeown. July 2016. In Communications of the China Computer Federation (CCF).
“Paxos Made Switch-y.” Huynh Tu Dang, Marco Canini, Fernando Pedone, and Robert Soulé. April 2016. In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR).
“P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors.” Pat Bosshart, Dan Daly, Glen Gibb, Martin Izzard, Nick McKeown, Jennifer Rexford, Cole Schlesinger, Dan Talayco, Amin Vahdat, George Varghese, and David Walker. July 2014. In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR).

Conferences

“Revisiting Heavy-Hitter Detection on Commodity Programmable Switches.” Xin Zhe Khooi, Levente Csikor, Jialin Li, Min Suk Kang, Dinil Mon Divakaran. July 26, 2021. In 2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft).
“DiffPerf: An In-Network Performance Optimization for Improving User-Perceived QoE.” Walid Aljoby, Xin Wang, Dinil Mon Divakaran, Tom Z. J. Fu, Richard T. B. Ma. July 01, 2021. In The 7th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2021).
“INVEST: Flow-based Traffic Volume Estimation in Data-plane Programmable Networks.” Damu Ding, Marco Savi, Federico Pederzolli, Domenico Siracusa. June 21, 2021. In 2021 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking).
“Debugging Transient Faults in Data Centers using Synchronized Network-wide Packet Histories.” Pravein Govindan Kannan, Nishant Budhdev, Raj Joshi, Mun Choon Chan. April 12, 2021. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation.” Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan Ports, Peter Richtarik. April 12, 2021. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“Concordia: Distributed Shared Memory with In-Network Cache Coherence.” Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Junru Li, Youmin Chen, Jiwu Shu. February 23, 2021. In 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’21).
“FCM-Sketch: Generic Network Measurements with Data Plane Support.” Cha Hwan Song, Pravein Govindan Kannan, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Mun Choon Chan. November 23, 2020. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT).
“Gauntlet: Finding Bugs in Compilers for Programmable Packet Processing.” Fabian Ruffy, Tao Wang, Anirudh Sivaraman. November 4, 2020. In OSDI 20.
“Composing Dataplane Programs with µP4.” Hardik Soni, Myriana Rifai, Praveen Kumar, Ryan Doenges, Nate Foster. August 10, 2020. In SIGCOMM ’20: Proceedings of the Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication.
“Estimating Logarithmic and Exponential Functions to Track Network Traffic Entropy in P4.” Damu Ding, Marco Savi, Domenico Siracusa. April 20, 2020. In 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS).
“A High-Speed Load-Balancer Design with Guaranteed Per-Connection-Consistency.” Tom Barbette, Chen Tang, Haoran Yao, Dejan Kostić, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Marco Chiesa. February 25, 2020. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“SP-PIFO: Approximating Push-In First-Out Behaviors using Strict-Priority Queues.” Albert Gran Alcoz, Alexander Dietmüller, Laurent Vanbever. February 27, 2020. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“Fine-Grained Queue Measurement in the Data Plane.” Xiaoqi Chen, Shir Landau Feibish, Yaron Koral, Jennifer Rexford, Ori Rottenstreich, Steven A Monetti, Tzuu-Yi Wang. December 2019. In ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT).
“How to Avoid Making a Billion-Dollar Mistake: Type-Safe Data Plane Programming with SafeP4.” Matthias Eichholz, Eric Campbell, Nate Foster, Guido Salvaneschi, Mira Mezini. July 2019. In European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP).
“Incremental Deployment of Programmable Switches for Network-wide Heavy-hitter Detection.” Damu Ding, Marco Savi, Gianni Antichi, Domenico Siracusa. June 24, 2019. In 2019 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft).
“Fast String Searching on PISA.” Theo Jepsen, Daniel Alvarez, Nate Foster, Changhoon Kim, Jeongkeun Lee, Masoud Moshref, Robert Soulé. April 2019. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“The Case For In-Network Computing On Demand.” Yuta Tokusashi, Huynh Tu Dang, Fernando Pedone, Robert Soulé, and Noa Zilberman. March 2019. In European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSYS).
“Efficient Measurement on Programmable Switches Using Probabilistic Recirculation.” Ran Ben Basat, Xiaoqi Chen, Gil Einziger, and Ori Rottenstrich. September 2018. In IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP).
“SketchLearn: Relieving User Burdens in Approximate Measurement with Automated Statistical Inference.” Qun Huang, Patrick P. C. Lee, and Yungang Bao. August 2018. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“Elastic Sketch: Adaptive and Fast Network-wide Measurements.” Tong Yang, Jie Jiang, Peng Liu, Qun Huang, Junzhi Gong, Yang Zhou, Rui Miao, Xiaoming Li, and Steve Uhlig. August 2018. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“Debugging P4 programs with Vera.” Radu Stoenescu, Dragos Dumitrescu, Matei Popovici, Lorina Negreanu, and Costin Raiciu. August 2018. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“p4v: Practical Verification for Programmable Data Planes.” Jed Liu, William Hallahan, Cole Schlesinger, Milad Sharif, Jeongkeun Lee, Robert Soulé, Han Wang, Călin Caşcaval, Nick McKeown, and Nate Foster. August 2018. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“Synchronized Network Snapshots.” Nofel Yaseen, John Sonchack, and Vincent Liu. August 2018. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“NetHide: Secure and Practical Network Topology Obfuscation.” Roland Meier, Petar Tsankov, Vincent Lenders, Laurent Vanbever, and Martin Vechev. August 2018. In USENIX Security Symposium.
“Distributed Network Monitoring and Debugging with SwitchPointer.” Praveen Tammana, Rachit Agarwal, and Myungjin Lee. April 2018. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination.” Xin Jin, Xiaozhou Li, Haoyu Zhang, Nate Foster, Jeongkeun Lee, Robert Soule, Changhoon Kim, and Ion Stoica. April 2018. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“Approximating Fair Queueing on Reconfigurable Switches.” Naveen Kr. Sharma, Ming Liu, Kishore Atreya, and Arvind Krishnamurthy. April 2018. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“Uncovering Bugs in P4 Programs with Assertion-based Verification.” Freire, Miguel Neves, Lucas Leal, Kirill Levchenko, Alberto Schaeffer-Filho, and Marinho Barcellos. March 2018. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“Life in the Fast Lane: A Line-Rate Linear Road.” Theo Jepsen, Masoud Moshref, Antonio Carzaniga, Nate Foster, and Robert Soulé. March 2018. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“P4-Compatible High-Level Synthesis of Low Latency 100 Gb/s Streaming Packet Parsers in FPGAs.” Jeferson Santiago da Silva, François-Raymond Boyer, and J.M. Pierre Langlois. February 2018. In 2018 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’18).
“Configurable FPGA Packet Parser for Terabit Networks with Guaranteed Wire-Speed Throughput.” Jakub Cabal, Pavel Benáček, Lukáš Kekely, Michal Kekely, Viktor Puš, and Jan Kořenek. February 2018. In 2018 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’18).
“NetCache: Balancing Key-Value Stores with Fast In-Network Caching.” Xin Jin, Xiaozhou Li, Haoyu Zhang, Robert Soulé, Jeongkeun Lee, Nate Foster, Changhoon Kim, and Ion Stoica. October 2017. In ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP).
“Programmable Data Plane for Professional Media Networking.” Thomas Edwards and Nick Ciarleglio. October 2017. In SMPTE 2017 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.
“Line Rate Programmable Packet Processing in 100Gb Networks.” Pavel Benáček, Viktor Puš, Jan Kořenek, and Michal Kekely. September 2017. In 27th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL).
“SilkRoad: Making Stateful Layer-4 Load Balancing Fast and Cheap Using Switching ASICs.” Rui Miao, Hongyi Zeng, Changhoon Kim, Jeongkeun Lee, and Minlan Yu. August 2017. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“dRMT: Disaggregated Programmable Switching.” Sharad Chole, Andy Fingerhut, Sha Ma, Anirudh Sivaraman, Shay Vargaftik, Alon Berger, Gal Mendelson, Mohammad Alizadeh, Shang-Tse Chuang, Isaac Keslassy, Ariel Orda, and Tom Edsall. August 2017. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“Language-Directed Hardware Design for Network Performance Monitoring.” Srinivas Narayana, Anirudh Sivaraman, Vikram Nathan, Prateesh Goyal, Venkat Arun, Mohammad Alizadeh, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, and Changhoon Kim. August 2017. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“MACSAD: High performance dataplane applications on the move.” P Gyanesh Kumar Patra, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, and Gergely Pongrácz. June 2017. In IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR).
“Swing State: Consistent Updates for Stateful and Programmable Data Planes.” Shouxi Luo, Hongfang Yu, Laurent Vanbever. April 2017. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“Heavy-Hitter Detection Entirely in the Data Plane.” Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman, Srinivas Narayana, Ori Rottenstreich, S. Muthukrishnan, and Jennifer Rexford . April 2017. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“Dapper: Data Plane Performance Diagnosis of TCP.” Mojgan Ghasemi, Theophilus Benson, and Jennifer Rexford. April 2017. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“Whippersnapper: A P4 Language Benchmark Suite.” Huynh Tu Dang, Han Wang, Theo Jepsen, Gordon Brebner, Changhoon Kim, Jennifer Rexford, Robert Soulé, and Hakim Weatherspoon. April 2017. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“P4FPGA: A Rapid Prototyping Framework for P4.” Han Wang, Huynh Tu Dang, Robert Soulé, Ki Suh Lee, Vishal Shrivastav, Nate Foster and Hakim Weatherspoon. April 2017. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“Evaluating the Power of Flexible Packet Processing for Network Resource Allocation.” Naveen Kr. Sharma, Antoine Kaufmann, Thomas Anderson, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Jacob Nelson and Simon Peter. March 2017. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“LossRadar: Fast Detection of Lost Packets in Data Center Networks.” Yuliang Li, Rui Miao, Changhoon Kim, and Minlan Yu. December 2016. In ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT).
“PISCES: A Programmable, Protocol-Independent Software Switch.” Muhammad Shahbaz, Sean Choi, Ben Pfaff, Changhoon Kim, Nick Feamster, Nick McKeown, and Jennifer Rexford. August 2016. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“SNAP: Stateful Network-Wide Abstractions for Packet Processing.” Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Yaron Koral, Michael Greenberg, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. August 2016. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“One Sketch to Rule Them All: Rethinking Network Flow Monitoring with UnivMon.” Zaoxing Liu, Antonis Manousis, Gregory Vorsanger, Vyas Sekar, and Vladimir Braverman. August 2016. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“Programmable Packet Scheduling at Line Rate.” Anirudh Sivaraman, Suvinay Subramanian, Mohammad Alizadeh, Sharad Chole, Shang-Tse Chuang, Anurag Agrawal, Hari Balakrishnan, Tom Edsall, Sachin Katti, and Nick McKeown. August 2016. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“Packet Transactions: High-Level Programming for Line-Rate Switches.” Anirudh Sivaraman, Alvin Cheung, Mihai Budiu, Changhoon Kim, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, George Varghese, Nick McKeown, and Steve Licking. August 2016. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).
“P4-to-VHDL: Automatic Generation of 100Gbps Packet Parsers.” Pavel Benáček, Viktor Puš, and Hana Kubátová. May 2016. In IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM2016).
“FlowRadar: A Better NetFlow for Data Centers.” Yuliang Li, Rui Miao, Changhoon Kim, and Minlan Yu. March 2016. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
“HULA: Scalable Load Balancing Using Programmable Data Planes.” Naga Katta, Mukesh Hira, Changhoon Kim, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Jennifer Rexford. March 2016. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“NetPaxos: Consensus at Network Speed.” Huynh Tu Dang, Daniele Sciascia, Marco Canini, Fernando Pedone, and Robert Soulé. June 2015. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“DC.p4: programming the forwarding plane of a data-center switch.” Anirudh Sivaraman, Changhoon Kim, Ramkumar Krishnamoorthy, Advait Dixit, and Mihai Budiu. June 2015. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“Compiling Packet Programs to Reconfigurable Switches.” Lavanya Jose, Lisa Yan, George Varghese, and Nick McKeown. May 2015. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).

Workshops

“In-Network Applications: Beyond Single Switch Pipelines.” Xin Zhe Khooi, Levente Csikor, Jialin Li, Dinil Mon Divakaran. July 26, 2021. In 2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft).
“When SRv6 meets 5G Core: Implementation and Deployment of a Network Service Chaining Function in SmartNICs.” Guilherme Matos, Leandro Almeida, Luis Contreras, Fábio Verdi. May 18, 2021. In 2021 P4 Workshop.
“Offloading Virtual Evolved Packet Gateway User Plane Functions to a Programmable ASIC.” Suneet Kumar Singh, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Gyanesh Patra, Gergely Pongracz. December 09, 2019. In ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Emerging in-Network Computing Paradigms.
“Packet Subscriptions for Programmable ASICs.” Theo Jepsen, Masoud Moshref, Antonio Carzaniga, Nate Foster, Robert Soulé. November 2018. In ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets).
“Hardware-Accelerated Network Control Planes.” Edgar Costa Molero, Stefano Vissicchio, and Laurent Vanbever. November 2018. In ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets).
“Infinite Resources for Optimistic Concurrency Control.” Theo Jepsen, Leandro Pacheco de Sousa, Masoud Moshref, Fernando Pedone, and Robert Soulé. August 2018. In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on In-Network Computing (NetCompute).
“In-network computation is a dumb idea whose time has come.” Amedeo Sapio, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Abdulla Aldilaijan, Marco Canini, Panos Kalnis. November 2017. In ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets).
“The Case for a Flexible Low-Level Backend for Software Data Planes.” Sean Choi, Xiang Long, Muhammad Shahbaz, Skip Booth, Andy Keep, John Marshall, and Changhoon Kim. August 2017. In Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet).

Posters

“Revisiting Heavy-Hitters: Don’t count packets, compute flow inter-packet metrics in the data plane.” Suneet Kumar Singh, Christian Rothenberg, Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Gianni Antichi, Gergely Pongracz. August 10, 2020. In ACM SIGCOMM.
“PVPP: A Programmable Vector Packet Processor.” Sean Choi, Xiang Long, Muhammad Shahbaz, Skip Booth, Andy Keep, John Marshall, and Changhoon Kim. April 2017. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
“MACSAD: Multi-Architecture Compiler System for Abstract Dataplanes (Aka Partnering P4 with ODP).” P Gyanesh Kumar Patra, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, and Gergely Pongrácz. August 2016. In ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM).

Dissertations

“Improving Network Diagnostics using Programmable Networks.” Pravein Govindan Kannan. September 20, 2019. PhD Dissertation, National University of Singapore (NUS).
“Generation of High-Speed Network Device from High-Level Description.” Pavel Benáček. November 2016. PhD Dissertation, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information Technology.

P4 Publications