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10 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.NI2026

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.NI2026

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.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…