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most citedP4-PSFP: P4-Based Per-Stream Filtering and Policing for Time-Sensitive Networking

11 citations · 16 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.NI2026

High-Speed Generation of Periodic Traffic Patterns on P4TG for DDoS and Burst-Load Evaluation

Fabian Ihle, Etienne Zink, Michael Menth

Traffic generators are essential tools for evaluating the robustness and performance of networked systems. P4TG is an open-source, hardware-accelerated traffic generator implemente…

cs.NI2026

DPDS: A DPDK-Based Packet Delayer and Spacer

Etienne Zink, Fabian Ihle, Michael Menth

In this paper we tackle the problem of adding varying delay to packets for link emulation. Naive approaches either add more delay than desired or cause packet reordering, both of w…

cs.NI2025★ 1 cited

P4-TAS: P4-Based Time-Aware Shaper for Time-Sensitive Networking

Fabian Ihle, Moritz Flüchter, Michael Menth

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is a set of IEEE standards that extends Ethernet with real-time capabilities. Among its mechanisms, the time-aware shaper (TAS) periodically opens a…

cs.NI2025

SENSOR: A Cost-Efficient Open-Source Flow Monitoring Platform

Gabriel Paradzik, Benjamin Steinert, Heinrich Abele +1

This paper presents a cost-effective and distributed flow monitoring platform for collecting unsampled IPFIX data exclusively using open-source tools, which is implemented at the U…

cs.NI2025

Stack Management for MPLS Network Actions: Integration of Nodes with Limited Hardware Capabilities

Fabian Ihle, Michael Menth

The MPLS Network Actions (MNA) framework enhances MPLS forwarding with a generalized encoding for manifold extensions such as network slicing and in-situ OAM (IOAM). Network action…

cs.NI2025

Enhancements to P4TG: Histogram-Based RTT Monitoring in the Data Plane

Fabian Ihle, Etienne Zink, Michael Menth

Modern traffic generators are essential tools for evaluating the performance of network environments. P4TG is a P4-based traffic generator implemented for Intel Tofino switches tha…

cs.NI2025

Packet Level Resilience for the User Plane in 5G Networks

Fabian Ihle, Tobias Meuser, Michael Menth +1

The growing demands of ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) in 5G networks necessitate enhanced resilience mechanisms to address user plane failures caused by outag…

cs.NI2025

Rust Barefoot Runtime (RBFRT): Fast Runtime Control for the Intel Tofino

Etienne Zink, Moritz Flüchter, Steffen Lindner +2

Data plane programming enables the programmability of network devices with domain-specific programming languages, like P4. One commonly used P4-programmable hardware target is the…

cs.NI2025

Enhancements to P4TG: Protocols, Performance, and Automation

Fabian Ihle, Etienne Zink, Steffen Lindner +1

P4TG is a hardware-based traffic generator (TG) running on the Intel Tofino 1 ASIC and was programmed using the programming language P4. In its initial version, P4TG could generate…

cs.NI2024★ 3 cited

MPLS Network Actions: Technological Overview and P4-Based Implementation on a High-Speed Switching ASIC

Fabian Ihle, Michael Menth

In MPLS, packets are encapsulated with labels that add domain-specific forwarding information. Special purpose labels were introduced to trigger special behavior in MPLS nodes but…

cs.NI2024★ 1 cited

Extensions to BIER Tree Engineering (BIER-TE) for Large Multicast Domains and 1:1 Protection: Concept, Implementation and Performance

Moritz Flüchter, Steffen Lindner, Fabian Ihle +2

Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) has been proposed by the IETF as a stateless multicast transport technology. BIER adds a BIER header containing a bitstring indicating receive…

cs.NI2023★ 11 cited

P4-PSFP: P4-Based Per-Stream Filtering and Policing for Time-Sensitive Networking

Fabian Ihle, Steffen Lindner, Michael Menth

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) extends Ethernet to enable real-time communication. In TSN, bounded latency and zero congestion-based packet loss are achieved through mechanisms su…