Volume 11, Number 18, November 2021

Survey on Some Optimization Possibilities for Data Plane Applications

  Authors

Gereltsetseg Altangerel, Tejfel Máté, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

  Abstract

By programming both the data plane and the control plane, network operators can customize their networks based on their needs, regardless of the hardware manufacturer. Control plane programming, a major component of the SDN (Software Defined Network) concept, has been developed for more than 10 years and successfully implemented in real networks. Efforts to develop reconfigurable data planes and high-level network programming languages make it truly possible to program data planes. Therefore, the programmable data planes and SDNs offer great flexibility in network customization, allowing many innovations to be introduced on the network. The general focus of research on the data plane is data-plane abstractions, languages and compilers, data plane algorithms, and applications. This paper outlines some emerging applications on the data plane and offers opportunities for further improvement and optimization.

  Keywords

Data plane, load balancing, in-network caching, in-network computing, in-network data aggregation, INT.