[P4] P4-TALK: A target independent P4 compiler design with a hardware abstraction library

[Sandor Laki]

Dear Nick, Jen and P4 Workshop Organizers,

I'm writing to submit a proposal for a talk at the 2nd P4 Workshop.

Title: A target independent P4 compiler design with a hardware 
abstraction library

Abstract: In cooperation with Ericsson our team from Eötvös Loránd 
University, Budapest, Hungary works on a P4 compiler that separates the 
hardware specific and hardware independent program functionalities. 
According to this design, the core compiler generates a target 
independent core program that relies on a target-specific hardware 
abstraction library representing an abstraction layer between the actual 
hardware and the P4 program. This design enables us to switch to a new 
hardware without writing a new P4 compiler and recompiling the original 
P4 program, since the core program always remains the same and the 
underlying target-specific library will only be changed. In this talk, 
we will present the current status of our target independent core 
compiler, the challenges we faced and an Intel DPDK implementation of 
the hardware abstraction library.

Bio of the Speaker: Sandor Laki is an Assistant Professor at the 
Department of Information Systems, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 
Hungary. His research interests focus on active and passive network 
measurement techniques, traffic analytics, IP geolocation and 
algorithmic aspects of communication networks. Since 2015, he is a 
senior member of the Communication Networks Laboratory - a joint 
laboratory of Eötvös University and Ericsson Research. In the past years 
he has participated in various EC and EIT ICTLabs projects, including 
FP7 OneLab2, FP7 NOVI, FP7 OpenLab, EIT ICTLabs FITTING and EIT ICTLabs 
Smart Ubiquitous Communication.

Additional information: We could also show a demo of our compiler for 
the Intel DPDK target.

I'm looking forward to receiving your reply.

Best regards,
Sandor


-- 
Sándor Laki, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems
Eötvös Loránd University
Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C
H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
Room 2.506
Phone: +36 1 372 2869 / 8477
Cell: +36 70 374 2646