P4
Introduction
P4: Programmable data-planes
Summary
P4 is a declarative language for telling forwarding-plane devices (switches, NICs, firewalls, filters, etc) how to process packets.Details
The draft specification for the P4_16 programming language is now available on P4.org. There is an Apache 2-licensed open-source reference implementation: on GitHub. Companies that have shipped products using P4 include Intel, Cisco, Xilinx, Mellanox, Netronome.Researchers
Palo Alto, CA, US
External Researchers
- Fabian Ruffy
Related Publications
- Nerpa: Network Programming with Relational and Procedural Abstractions May, 2022
- P4 in Open vSwitch with OfP4 May, 2022
- The P4-16 Programming Language August, 2017
- dRMT: Disagreggated Programmable Switching August, 2017
- P4_16 Language Specification December, 2016
- Packet Transactions: High-level Programming for Line-Rate Switches August, 2016
Category
- Graduated Research Projects