5th P4 Workshop

A Presentation by the P4 Language Consortium

Held at Stanford University on Tuesday, June 5, 2018

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Agenda


  • 8:00 – 9:00am
    • Registration and Breakfast

  • 9:00 – 9:20am


  • 9:50 – 10:10am
    • Exposing Data Plane Programmability on Turn-key Network Devices Speaker and Author: Mario Baldi (Cisco Systems) (slides)

  • 10:10 – 10:25am
    • Demo Lightning Talks During this session, 1-minute, 1-slide lightning talks will be presented by: Google, Netcope Technologies, University of Campinas, Eötvös Loránd University, and Open Networking Foundation (lightning talk slides found below)

  • 10:25 – 10:55am
    • Break and Demo Visits

SESSION CHAIR: Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (Princeton University)


  • 10:55 – 11:15am
    • Stratum: Enabling the Next Generation of SDN Interfaces Speaker and Author: Brian O’Connor (Open Networking Foundation) (slides)

  • 11:15 – 11:35am
    • A Framework for Network Intelligence Speaker and Author: Ken Duell (AT&T) (slides)

  • 11:35 – 11:55am
    • Automated Test Case Generation from P4 Programs Speaker: Chris Sommers (Keysight Technologies) (slides) Co-Authors: Prasenjit Adhikary, Rudrarup Naskar, Kinshuk Mandal, Chris Sommers (Keysight Technologies)

  • 11:55 – 12:15pm
    • P4C-XDP: Programming Linux Kernel Forwarding Plane Using P4 Speaker: William Tu (VMware NSBU) (slides) Co-Authors: William Tu (VMware NSBU), Mihai Bidiu (VMware Research)

  • 12:15 – 12:30pm
    • Demo Lightning Talks During this session, 1-minute, 1-slide lightning talks will be presented by: Cisco Systems, Mellanox Technologies, Stanford University, Juniper Networks, Barefoot Networks, and POSTECH (lightning talk slides found below)

  • 12:30 – 2:00pm
    • Lunch and Demo Visits

SESSION CHAIR: Cole Schlesinger (Barefoot Networks)


  • 2:00 – 2:40pm
    • Keynote: NetChain and NetCache Speaker: Xin Jin (Johns Hopkins University) (slides) Co-Authors: Xin Jin (Johns Hopkins University, Xiaozhou Li (Barefoot Networks), Haoyu Zhang (Princeton University), Nate Foster (Cornell University), Jeongkeun Lee (Barefoot Networks), Robert Soule (USI), Changhoon Kim (Barefoot Networks), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)

  • 2:40 – 3:00pm
    • Camus: High-Throughput Publish-Subscribe in the Forwarding Plane Speaker: Theo Jepsen (Università della Svizzera Italiana) (slides) Co-Authors: Theo Jepsen (USI), Masoud Moshref (Barefoot Networks), Antonio Carzaniga (USI), Nate Foster (Cornell University), Xiaozhou Li (Barefoot Networks), Milad Sharif (Barefoot Networks), Robert Soule (USI)

  • 3:00 – 3:20pm
    • Fast Reroute in P4: Keep Calm and Enjoy Programmability Speaker: Marco Chiesa (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) (slides) Co-Authors: Roshan Sedar (Universite catholique de Louvain), Michael Borokhovich (Independent Researcher), Gianni Antichi (University of Cambridge), Marco Chiesa (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Stefan Schmid (University of Vienna)

  • 3:20 – 3:55pm
    • Break and Demo Visits

SESSION CHAIR: Sujata Banerjee (VMware)


  • 3:55 – 4:15pm
    • Enabling Event Triggered Monitoring of Traffic Clusters Speaker: Gianni Antichi (University of Cambridge) (slides) Co-Authors: Jan Kucera (CESNET), Diana Popescu (University of Cambridge), Gianni Antichi, Jan Korenek (Brno University of Technology), Andrew Moore (University of Cambridge)

  • 4:15 – 4:35pm

  • 4:35 – 4:55pm
    • Rapid Prototyping of Avionic Applications Using P4 Speaker: Dominik Scholz (Technical University of Munich) (slides) Co-Authors: Dominik Scholz, Fabien Geyer, Sebastian Gallenmuller, Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich)

  • 4:55 – 5:15pm
    • Using P4 for Converged and Programmable XHaul in Mobile RAN Speakers and Co-Authors: James Yu (Nokia) & Gordon Brebner (Xilinx) (slides)


  • 5:30 – 6:30pm
    • Reception

Demos to Visit

  • Stratum: Enabling the Next Generation of SDN Interfaces (Google, Open Networking Foundation) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • Segment Routing at 100G Using FPGA Smart NIC and P4 (CESNET, Netcope Technologies) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • Switch ASIC Programmability in Hybrid Mode (Microsoft, Mellanox) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • BB-Gen: A Packet Crafter for Performance Evaluation of P4 Data Planes (University of Campinas, Ericsson Research) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • Towards Programmable Scheduling: PIFO Implementation on NetFPGA (New York University, Stanford University, Xilinx Labs) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • P4 meets 5G (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Ericsson Research) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • VNF offloading on a multi-vendor P4 fabric controlled by ONOS via P4Runtime (Open Networking Foundation) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • In-band Network Telemetry Management Architecture: ONOS INT Service and XDP (POSTECH) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • In-Network Deduplication for Packet Broker Deployments (Cisco Systems) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • Barefoot Deep Insight (Barefoot Networks) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • p4pktgen: Automated Test Case Generation for P4 Programs (Cisco Systems, Stanford University, Virginia Tech) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • AFI Sandboxes: An adaptation of P4 on Trio3D (Juniper Networks) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • Flexible OVS acceleration with P4 and low profile FPGA card (CESNET, Netcope Technologies) (abstract) (demo_slide)
  • MACSAD: An Exemplar Realization of Multi-Architecture P4 Pipelines (University of Campinas, Ericsson Research) (abstract) (demo_slide)

Technical Program Committee

  • Andy Fingerhut (Chair), Cisco Systems
  • Mina Arashloo, Princeton University
  • Sujata Banerjee, VMware
  • Tom Rodeheffer, Google
  • Cole Schlesinger, Barefoot Networks
  • Anirudh Sivaraman, New York University
  • Noa Zilberman, University of Cambridge
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