A perspective on P4-based data and control plane modularity for network automation

Eder Ollora Zaballa, David Franco, Michael Stübert Berger, Marivi Higuero

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    Abstract

    When Software-Defined Networks (SDN) gained popularity, different control plane applications could run together to manage vendor-agnostic OpenFlow data planes. With the adoption of P4, developers realized that the P4 logic developed for one particular model and target could not be modularly shared, preventing fast adoption. As a result, a pipeline's specific functionality can not be exported and incorporated into another pipeline without the necessary manual adaptations. As a result, we present the early work for P4click, a Next-Generation SDN automation platform. It aims to modularly increment data plane pipeline features, combine P4 entities such as headers, the parser/deparser, build the pipeline execution flow, and the appropriate control plane applications. This paper presents the design adoptions to segregate independent P4 logic features and the architecture for data and control plane modularization.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd P4 Workshop in Europe
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    Publication date2020
    Pages59-61
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-8181-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020
    Event3rd P4 Workshop in Europe - Barcelona , Spain
    Duration: 1 Dec 20201 Dec 2020

    Conference

    Conference3rd P4 Workshop in Europe
    Country/TerritorySpain
    CityBarcelona
    Period01/12/202001/12/2020

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