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NS4: A P4-driven Network Simulator

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Chengze Fan,

Jun Bi,

Yu Zhou,

Cheng Zhang,

Haisu YuAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCOMM Posters and Demos '17: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Posters and Demos

Pages 105 - 107

https://doi.org/10.1145/3123878.3132002

Published: 22 August 2017 Publication History

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We present NS4, a P4-driven network simulator, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first research effort in applying P4 to network simulation. Key features of NS4 include (1) elimination of laborious and redundant work for developing internal models of the simulator; (2) direct migration from simulation code to real-world P4 devices; (3) simulation of P4-enabled devices and network systems; (4) seamless compatibility with ns-3; (5) better scalability over other P4 behavioral model validation tools.

We proposed and prototyped NS4 by integrating a P4 behavioral model in ns-3, and evaluated its effectiveness by a user case study. Source codes and examples of NS4 are publicly available at https://ns-4.github.io/

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NS4: A P4-driven Network Simulator
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network simulations
  2. Network services
    1. Programmable networks

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SIGCOMM Posters and Demos '17: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Posters and Demos

August 2017

158 pages

ISBN:9781450350570

DOI:10.1145/3123878

Co-chairs:
Jeff Burke
UCLA
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Matthias Wählisch
Freie Universität Berlin
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Nicholas Zhang
Huawei Technologies, China
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David Meyer
University of Oregon/Brocade
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Puneet Sharma
Hewlett Packard Labs

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Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program
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August 22 - 24, 2017

CA, Los Angeles, USA

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