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Next-generation internet at terabit speed: SCION in P4

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Joeri de Ruiter and

Caspar SchutijserAuthors Info & Claims

CoNEXT '21: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

December 2021

Pages 119 - 125

https://doi.org/10.1145/3485983.3494839

Published: 03 December 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Regularly, new architectures are proposed to address shortcomings in the current internet. It is not always trivial to evaluate how these proposals would perform in practice. This situation is improved significantly with the introduction of the P4 programming language and programmable network equipment. In this paper we discuss our implementation of one particular future internet architecture, namely SCION. We implemented a SCION router in P4 for switches based on the Intel Tofino ASIC. Having an open source P4 implementation of SCION that runs on high-speed hardware can contribute to its adoption as well as support research in this area. Our work lead to several recommendations for and subsequent changes to the SCION protocol, as well as some generic guidelines when designing protocols. A first analysis of our implementation shows it can process SCION packets at high speeds.

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Yoshinaka YTakemasa JKoizumi YHasegawa T(2022)Feasibility of Network-layer Anonymity Protocols at Terabit Speeds using a Programmable Switch2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)10.1109/NetSoft54395.2022.9844111(292-296)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/NetSoft54395.2022.9844111
Gartner MWagner JKoppehel MHausheer D(2022)XDP-Accelerated Packet Processing on SCION EndhostsNOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789923(1-9)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789923
Krähenbühl CTabaeiaghdaei SGloor CKwon JPerrig AHausheer DRoos DCarle GOtt J(2021)Deployment and scalability of an inter-domain multi-path routing infrastructureProceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies10.1145/3485983.3494862(126-140)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485983.3494862

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