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Anirudh Sivaraman , Alvin Cheung , Mihai Budiu , Changhoon Kim , Mohammad Alizadeh , Hari Balakrishnan , George Varghese , Nick McKeown , Steve Licking ·

YOU? · · 2016 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2934872.2934900 · OA: W2283556750

Many algorithms for congestion control, scheduling, network measurement, active queue management, and traffic engineering require custom processing of packets in the data plane of a network switch. To run at line rate, these data-plane algorithms must be implemented in hardware. With today's switch hardware, algorithms cannot be changed, nor new algorithms installed, after a switch has been built.