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6 papers

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.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.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

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

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…