Challenging the Stateless Quo of Programmable Switches
Nadeen Gebara, Alberto Lerner, Mingran Yang, Minlan Yu, Paolo Costa, Manya Ghobadi
Abstract
Programmable switches based on the Protocol Independent Switch Architecture (PISA) have greatly enhanced the flexibility of today's networks by allowing new packet protocols to be deployed without any hardware changes. They have also been instrumental in enabling a new computing paradigm in which parts of an application's logic run within the network core (in-network computing).
Topics & Concepts
Computer scienceStateless protocolFlexibility (engineering)Network packetProtocol (science)Computer networkComputer architectureProgrammable logic deviceArchitecturePipeline (software)Embedded systemDistributed computingOperating systemPathologyArtAlternative medicineVisual artsMedicineStatisticsMathematicsInterconnection Networks and SystemsSoftware-Defined Networks and 5GDistributed systems and fault tolerance