2021 P4 Workshop

The 2021 P4 Workshop was an exciting and informative virtual event that incorporated insights and perspectives from P4 community members around the world, with focused segments on:

P4 language
P4 targets
P4 use cases
P4 demos
P4 target tutorials

It included live keynotes as well as on-demand tech talks, demos, and tutorials – all the content is now available on-demand below.

LIVE KEYNOTES

	Title & Speaker	Video	Slides
	FROM PROGRAMMABLE SWITCHES TO PROGRAMMABLE NETWORKS Nate Foster, Associate Professor Computer Science, Cornell University
	P4 AT INTEL Guido Appenzeller, CTO, Data Platforms Group, Intel
	THE VALUE OF P4 PROGRAMMABILITY AT THE NETWORK EDGE Prem Jain, CEO & Co-Founder, Pensando
	APPROXIMATION IN PROGRAMMABLE DATA PLANE Minlan Yu, Associate Professor, Harvard University
	PINS P4 INTEGRATED NETWORK STACK Mythil Raman, Director Switch Infrastructure, Google Konstantin Weitz, Software Engineer, Google
	SD-FABRIC PROGRAMMABLE FABRIC FOR DATACENTERS Timon Sloane, VP Marketing & Ecosystem, ONF Charles Chan, MTS, ONF
	PROGRAMMABLE NETWORKING – OUR JOURNEY Yiqun Cai, VP, Alibaba
	PROGRAMMABILITY AND NETWORKING: WHY DO WE BOTHER? Pere Monclus, VP & CTO Network and Security, VMware
	HIGHER-ORDER TELEMETRY IN THE DATA PLANE Jennifer Rexford, Gordon U.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Department Chair, Princeton University
	P4: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN Anja Feldmann, Director, Max-Planck
	DEEPLY PROGRAMMABLE 5G EDGE CLOUD FABRIC WITH P4 Oğuz Sunay, VP R&D, Mobility, ONF Carmelo Cascone, MTS, ONF

INVITED TALKS

	Title & Speaker	Video	Slides
	P4 PRACTICE AT BAIDU Gang Cheng, Distinguished Engineer, Baidu
	PROGRAMMABLE DATA PLANES FOR CONVERGED ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE Murali Venkat, Principal Engineer, Cisco
	PROGRAMMABILITY IN NICS FOR CONGESTION CONTROL AND TRANSPORT Nandita Dukkipati, Principal Engineer, Google Konstantin Weitz, Software Engineer, Google
	NDP WITH SONIC-PINS: A LOW LATENCY AND HIGH PERFORMANCE DATACENTER TRANSPORT INTEGRATED INTO SONIC Rong Pan, Fellow, Data Platform Group, Intel Reshma Sudarshan, Director Applications Engineering, Intel

TECHNICAL TALKS

	Title & Speaker	Video	Slides
	THE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL P4 SWITCHES – BASIC INTRODUCTION Paul Chang, CTO, Asterfusion
	EXTENDING P4 TO REALIZE A SCALABLE FLOW CACHING MECHANISM Angelo Tulumello, Network Software Engineer, Axbryd / University of Rome Tor Vergata
	MEASURING BROADBAND EXPERIENCE USING P4-PUSH TELEMETRY Himal Kumar, CTO, Canopus Networks
	P4-PROGRAMMABLE SMARTNIC CONTROLLED BY ONOS Artur Jaworski, Software Developer, CodiLime Pawel Parol, Senior Network Engineer, CodiLime
	REVITALIZING INDUSTRIAL NETWORKING WITH PROGRAMMABLE DATA PLANES Sándor Laki, Assistant Professor, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
	P4PI: P4 ON RASPBERRY PI FOR NETWORKING EDUCATION Sándor Laki, Assistant Professor, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
	WHAT’S NEXT FOR P4? A JOURNEY AROUND MISSING FEATURES Gergely Pongracz, Expert of Programmable Networks, Ericsson Research
	ROUTER FOR ACADEMIA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Frédéric Loui, Technical Leader, GÉANT
	CAN P4 RUN ON “SWITCHY” CPUS? Cristian Dumitrescu, Software Architect, Intel Han Wang, Software Architect, Intel
	PORTABLE NIC ARCHITECTURE UPDATE Andy Fingerhut, Principal Engineer, Intel
	REALIZING ONE BIG SWITCH AS PERFORMANCE ABSTRACTION USING P4 Jeongkeun “JK” Lee, Principal Engineer, Intel Petr Lapukhov, Network Engineer, Facebook
	PACKET DEDUPLICATION IN P4 Stefan Johansson, FPGA Architect, Keysight Technologies
	COMMON INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATION (COMMON IR) Venkat Pullela, Co-Founder, OpenNets
	FLEXIBLE AND EFFICIENT MEMORY SYSTEM FOR A HIGH PERFORMANCE PROCESSING PIPELINE Mario Baldi, Distinguished Technologist, Pensando
	QUADCOPTER IMPLEMENTATION OF AN IN-NETWORK CENTRALIZED COLLISION AVOIDANCE ALGORITHM IN PROGRAMMABLE DATA PLANES Fabricio Rodriguez, PhD Student, UNICAMP
	PL2: TOWARDS PREDICTABLE LOW LATENCY IN RACK-SCALE NETWORKS Yanfang Le, PhD Student, Intel & University of Wisconsin-Madison

DEMONSTRATIONS

	Title & Speaker	Video	Slides
	WHEN SRV6 MEETS 5G CORE: IMPLEMENTATION & DEPLOYMENT OF A NETWORK SERVICE CHAINING FUNCTION IN SMARTNICS Guilherme Matos, Masters Student, Federal University of São Carlos
	GOODBYE SCAPY, HELLO SNAPPI – DATAPLANE TESTING FROM DC TO DAYLIGHT USING OPEN TRAFFIC GENERATOR API Chris Sommers, Software Architect, Keysight Technologies Ankur Sheth, Director Engineering, Keysight Technologies

TUTORIALS

	Title & Speaker	Video	Slides
	P416 PROGRAMMING FOR INTEL TOFINO USING INTEL P4 STUDIO Vladimir Gurevich, Principal Engineer, Barefoot, Intel Andy Fingerhut, Principal Engineer, Intel
	P4-OVS TUTORIAL Dan Daly, Intel Brian O’Connor, MTS, ONF Tomasz Osinski, MTS, ONF Kossakowski Mateusz, Orange Nupur Jain, Intel Gerald Rogers, Intel Namrata Limaye, Software Engineer, Intel
	NOVISPEAKER: COMMERCIALLY SUPPORTED P4 DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT TOOLSET FOR THE BAREFOOT/INTEL TOFINO Arun Paneri, Director Engineering, NoviFlow Jeff Elpern, Director Product Management, NoviFlow

SPONSORS

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NoviFlow’s NoviSpeaker P4 Runtime Speaker provides the P4 community with a commercially supported development and deployment toolset covering the complete development cycle and making full use of advanced P4 and Tofino capabilities on commercially available white-box hardware.

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