A Vision for Runtime Programmable Networks
A Vision for Runtime Programmable Networks
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10.1145/3484266.3487377
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2021-11
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Jiarong Xing;Kuo-Feng Hsu;Hongyi Liu;Matty Kadosh;Nvidia Alan;Lo Nvidia;Aditya Akella;T. Anderson;Arvind Krishnamurthy;T. Ng;Ang Chen;Yiming Qiu;Matty Ka-dosh;Alan Lo;Arvind Krish-namurthy
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Jiarong Xing;Kuo-Feng Hsu;Hongyi Liu;Matty Kadosh;Nvidia Alan;Lo Nvidia;Aditya Akella;T. Anderson;Arvind Krishnamurthy;T. Ng;Ang Chen;Yiming Qiu;Matty Ka-dosh;Alan Lo;Arvind Krish-namurthy
我们的社区在开发可编程网络基础设施方面取得了重大进展，从控制平面开始，扩展到数据平面。作为一种最新趋势，网络设备正在变得可在运行时编程，同时服务于实时流量。这允许在细粒度的时间尺度上对各个设备程序进行重新编程，以添加或删除网络功能。然而，许多应用和服务需要控制包括终端主机堆栈、网卡和交换机在内的设备组合才能实现其目标。我们规划了我们对运行时可编程网络的愿景，以设备级功能为基础，提供实时的、网络范围的、运行时重新编程。需要一种具有新的编程模型、编译器支持和网络管理抽象的全栈方法。我们概述了一项研究议程，作为向社区发出的战斗号召。
Our community has made significant progress in developing programmable network infrastructure, starting from the control plane and expanding to the data plane. As a latest trend, network devices are becoming runtime programmable while serving live traffic. This allows for reprogramming of individual device programs at fine-grained timescales to add or remove network functions. Many applications and services, however, need control over a combination of devices, including end host stacks, NICs, and switches, to accomplish their goals. We lay out our vision for runtime programmable networks, building upon device-level features to provide live, network-wide, runtime reprogramming. A whole-stack approach is needed with new programming models, compiler support, and network management abstractions. We outline a research agenda as a call to arms to the community.