Liatifis, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-8514-6636, Sarigiannidis, P. orcid.org/0000-0001-6042-0355, Argyriou, V. orcid.org/0000-0003-4679-8049 et al. (1 more author) (2023) Advancing SDN from OpenFlow to P4: a survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 55 (9). pp. 1-37. ISSN 0360-0300
Abstract
Software-defined Networking (SDN) marked the beginning of a new era in the field of networking by decoupling the control and forwarding processes through the OpenFlow protocol. The Next Generation SDN is defined by Open Interfaces and full programmability of the data plane. P4 is a domain-specific language that fulfills these requirements and has known wide adoption over recent years from Academia and Industry. This work is an extensive survey of the P4 language covering domains of application, a detailed overview of the language, and future directions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | SDN; P4; Next Generation SDN; programmable networks |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > International Faculty (Sheffield) > City College - Computer Science |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2023 12:19 |
Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2023 12:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/3556973 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196664 |