Grainflow: a per-bit customizable scheme for data plane innovation on programmable hardware

  • Authors:
  • Zhongjin Liu;Yong Li;Li Su;Depeng Jin;Lieguang Zeng

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of The ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce Grainflow, a scheme for flexibly deploying custom protocols at wire-speed. Grainflow is designed based on programmable hardware along with configuring software. Grainflow allows operation on every bit of header to be customized. With different configuration, Grainflow can flexibly customize IP and Non-IP protocols on the fly.