Graph-To-P4: A P4 boilerplate code generator for parse graphs

Eder Ollora Zaballa; Zifan Zhou

doi:10.1109/ANCS.2019.8901873

Graph-To-P4: A P4 boilerplate code generator for parse graphs

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The work described in this paper presents Graph-to-P4, a toolset for generating P4 boilerplate code from parse graphs. The purpose of such a toolset is to provide a higher level of abstraction to program pipelines in order to fill the knowledge gap that some students may encounter when diving into P4. While P4 is not difficult to learn, Graph-to-P4 offers the possibility first draw parse graphs, generate P4 starter code and finally let programmers develop the specific data plane behavior (actions, tables, etc.). We have experienced that this toolset offers a smooth introduction to P4 and the intrinsic networking concepts attached to it. We show that the toolset has potential to provide a larger set of high-level abstractions (tables, actions, etc.)and an extension to provide a two-way code transformation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	1 Sept 2019
Article number	8901873
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728143873
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ANCS.2019.8901873
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2019
Event	2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 24 Sept 2019 → 25 Sept 2019 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8891060/proceeding

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Conference	2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	24/09/2019 → 25/09/2019
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8891060/proceeding

Series	2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, ANCS 2019

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High-level abstraction
P4
Parse graph
Web

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Zaballa, EO & Zhou, Z 2019, Graph-To-P4: A P4 boilerplate code generator for parse graphs. in Proceedings of 2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems., 8901873, IEEE, 2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, ANCS 2019, 2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 24/09/2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ANCS.2019.8901873

Graph-To-P4: A P4 boilerplate code generator for parse graphs. / Zaballa, Eder Ollora; Zhou, Zifan.
Proceedings of 2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems. IEEE, 2019. 8901873 (2019 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, ANCS 2019).

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