RNP grant holder receives award from the Open Networking Foundation
The P7 project, by the doctoral student at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) Fabricio Rodriguez, who is also a fellow of the National Teaching and Research Network (RNP), was awarded at an international event by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), as the most innovative application in a network use case.
The project was presented at the P4 workshop, which discusses network programmability, where Fabrício Rodriguez presented the use case of a network topology emulator on Intel Tofino programmable hardware with support for 100 Gb/s interfaces.
In the demo, options were presented to experimentally validate the performance of a network topology, including link metrics, which are traditionally based on virtual environments that limit experimentation with transmission speeds above 10 Gb/s.
According to Fabricio's advisor at Unicamp, Christian Rothenberg, with the programmability that the P4 brings to the network and the new generation hardware capabilities supporting the PSA (Portable Switch Architecture) and TNA (Tofino Native Architecture) P4 architectures, the project defines link emulation characteristics and demonstrates a network topology with high fidelity and computing power using a single physical P4 switch.
For Fabrício Rodriguez, having participated in the event opens the door to presenting ideas that are being the focus of research in universities and industry, and is an opportunity for students and researchers. “Gaining community recognition is a very important milestone that drives and encourages us to continue contributing. The merit of the work belongs to everyone involved at RNP and Unicamp. They were fundamental to the success of the project”, declared the student.
The software will be open source for use by the entire networking research community. The author of the project will present the work at SIGCOMM 2022, between the 22nd and 26th of August in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Grant holders receive guidance from Professor Christian Rothenberg (Unicamp) and from RNP R&D manager Marcos Schwarz.
Read more at the ONF website.