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International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems

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P4-Based Implementation and Evaluation of Adaptive Early Packet Discarding Scheme

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Software Defined Networking (SDN) has attracted widespread attention due to its architectural challenges to flexibly and dynamically control network switches and packets traversing them. Recently the programmability on the data plane becomes an active area of research. For example, Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors (P4) was introduced as a language to enable packet-level processing by the data plane and supported by not only on software but on a variety of hardware of switches and devices. Motivated by this shift, we provide a P4-based implementation of the MTQ/QTL that is a dynamic advanced Active Queue Management (AQM) scheme previously proposed by the authors. In this paper, we report a P4-based MTQ/QTL implementation and its evaluation on software switches by Mininet emulator. Through the emulation, we verify that the effects of MTQ/QTL to benefit delay-sensitive application flows are similar to the previous simulation results, which suggests that the data plane programming using P4 in advanced AQM is feasible and promising as a next generation SDN enabler.

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Acknowledgements

The research results have been achieved by the “Resilient Edge Cloud Designed Network (19304),” NICT, and by JSPS KAKENHI JP20K11770, Japan.

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  1. Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui-cho, Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka, Japan

    Kazumi Kumazoe

  2. Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan

    Masato Tsuru

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Correspondence to Kazumi Kumazoe .

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Kin Fun Li

  3. School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

    Hiroyoshi Miwa

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Kumazoe, K., Tsuru, M. (2021). P4-Based Implementation and Evaluation of Adaptive Early Packet Discarding Scheme. In: Barolli, L., Li, K., Miwa, H. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_44

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