Avaliação de Linguagens de Programação do Plano de Dados em Redes Definidas por Software

• Juliana Duarte Bol IFRS
• Paula Duarte Bol UFRGS
• Rafael P. Esteves IFRS
• Weverton Cordeiro UFRGS
• Roben C. Lunardi IFRS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/errc.2021.18533

Abstract

The evolution of computer networking infrastructure and communication protocols has been restricted in the last decades. Some reasons for this are the difficulty in performing network infrastructure changes, the predominance of vendor-specific technologies and the limitations on available hardware. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) presents a new paradigm, helping the management of complex networks due to the possibility of programming the data plane. In order to provide an evaluation of available programming languages for the data plane, this work presents a preliminary study and an early analysis of the performance of programming languages POF, P4, µP4 and NPL.

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