Projects

Since its introduction in November 2015, Open-NFP has hosted 50+ open research and development projects from academia and industry. Relevant software and sample datapath libraries are hosted on GitHub, enabling collaborative development across distributed teams. The organization’s website is designed to be a common repository of open source networking datapath P4/C application code and research papers.

FlexTOE: Flexible TCP Offload with Fine-Grained Parallelism
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington - University of Washington Systems Lab

Security for Smart Grid Infrastructures Leveraging Machine Learning on Programmable Data Planes
Universidad de Antioquia - Research Group in Applied Telecommunications

Providing Monitoring Data to Data Centers
University of Calgary

The More the Better: Feeding Machine Learning Algorithms with INT Data
Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) - LERIS - Laboratory of Network, Innovation and Software

Scaling Out Service Chains with Programmable NICs
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) College of Computing - Network and Distributed Systems Group

Assuring Low Latency for Specific Applications on Passive Optical Networks
Trinity College Dublin - CONNECT/The Centre for Future Networks and Communication

Enabling Deep Forwarding Polices in the Data Plane Using Network Processors
University of Pennsylvania - Distributed Systems Laboratory

Advancing Network Function Virtualization Platforms with Programmable NICs
The George Washington University - GWU Cloud Lab

Encoding Metadata in Custom P4 Headers
University of Waikato - WAND Network Research Group

Exploring Accurate Flow Measurements Using Programmable Network Hardware
University of Twente - Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS)

Mitigation of Scalability and Performance of Machine Learning with In-Network Computation
CSIRO - Information Security and Privacy

Provisioning Microservice in Heterogeneous Network Systems
Technische Universität Darmstadt - TK

Spatial Performance Degradation Localization Using Network In-band Telemetry
GEANT - WP6T3 (Workpackage 6 Network Technologies & Services Development, Task 3 Monitoring and Management)

Heavy-Hitter Detection on SmartNIC - Using P4
Computer Science faculty, Technion, Israel - LCCN Lab

Optimizing In-band Network Telemetry
Federal University of Pampa - Optimization Systems Lab

Optimizing Data Plane Programs
Rutgers University

High Performance Network Layer Anonymous Communication
Technical University of Dresden

Increasing the Spatial Correlation of Logical Units of Data to Enable an Ultra-Low Latency Internet (ULTRA)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Flow Bypass Using XDP Hardware for Suricata
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities - Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

Accelerating the Telecom Control Plane via Offload to Programmable Dataplanes
IIT Bombay - Systems and Networks Research Group (SynerG)

Network Monitoring using eBPF
Federal University of Minas Gerais - WINET

λ−NIC: Interactive Serverless Compute on SmartNICs
Stanford University

Building A Programmable OLT For SDN-Based PONs Using P4
La Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BAMPLA: Design and Evaluation of Broadband Networks and Services

TurboFlow
University of Colorado - NSR

Virtual Heterogeneous Network Convergence
Wuhan University

Exploration of Dataplane Optimization in Software Defined Networks
North Carolina State University

Multi-tier NFV-Offloading
University of Stuttgart - Distributed Systems Group - Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems

Providing Access Control and Data Protection in Campus and Enterprise Networks
Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen - Chair of Communication Networks

VirtPhy: Fully Programmable NFV Orchestration Architecture for Edge Data Centers
Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo - Núcleo de Estudos em Redes Definidas por Software

SmartNIC-Accelerated Microservice Management
Nokia Bell Labs

Reducing Network Latency
TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Bare Metal Network Virtualization using P4 (BNVP4)
National University of Singapore - Networking Lab

NFV-Optimizer
Karlstad University - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Evaluation of approaches for hardware-accelerated and -offloaded VNFs in telco applications
Nokia Bell Labs

Data Plane Programmability for Network Softwarization
The University of Tokyo

Datapath Primitives for Congestion Control
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - MIT CSAIL - Networks and Mobile Systems Group

Securing networks with P4
University of Amsterdam - System and Networking Engineering (SNE)

In-Network Caching Acceleration for CCN/NDN with SmartNIC
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute - SDN Technology Research Section

In-Band Network Telemetry
Softbank - Service Platform Development Division

NFV acceleration with stateful NIC primitives
NEC Laboratories Europe - Network Research Division

FlexP4: Introducing Flexibility and Modularity to P4
Tsinghua University - Department of Computer Science

Detecting Network-based Attacks (inbound/outbound) in the Cloud
Fujitsu - Fujitsu Laboratories

Smart Network Platform for SDN and NFV
Konkuk University - DMS Group

Development of Universal Programmable Gateway using P4 and SmartNIC
Korea University - School of Electrical Engineering

Research on Networking Functions in P4
Cape City Command

P4 Performance Evaluation
Technical University of Munich

Load Balancer Dataplane Offload
Yale University - Department of Computer Science

Sonata Network Telemetry System
Princeton University - Department of Computer Science

Flexibility and Hardware Acceleration in SDN
TNO, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

Functional and Performance Evaluation of P4
Airbus Group - Airbus Group Innovations

SDN Application to Existing Government Network Infrastructure
The Mitre Corporation

Programming Information-Centric Data-Planes in P4
University of Luxembourg - SEDAN Research Group

Network Traffic Analysis Platform
Innovation Institute for Future Networks - SDN Lab

Traffic Management in Optical Networks
Titan Photonics

SDT - Software-Defined Tester with P4/C
Fujitsu Advanced Technologies - Embedded System Development Department

Runtime Reconfiguration with P4 Virtualization
University of Utah - FLUX Research Group

Seamless Elasticity in NFV Environments with Heterogeneous Hardware Infrastructures
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt - Peer to Peer Systems Engineering Lab

Comparison of Datapath Acceleration Methods Using Netronome SmartNIC
Toyota Info Technology Center

Traffic Measurement and Anomaly Detection as an NFV Service
New York University Tandon School of Engineering - High Speed Networks Lab

Switch-Level Network Security
University of Pennsylvania - Distributed Systems Laboratory

Software-Defined Multicast with P4
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt - Peer to Peer Systems Engineering Lab

Proactive Network-Based Security
Mimir Networks

Integrating OVS Offload and P4
Technion - Laboratory of Computer Communication and Networking

Performance Evaluation of Hardware-Accelerated SDN and NFV
University of Wuerzburg - Chair of Communication Networks

Scalable and Portable Network Function Virtualization
University of Michigan - RobustNet Research Group

Earth Computing Link Protocol with SmartNICs
Earth Computing

New Protocols for Connection Authentication
SURFnet

Line Rate Packet Processing
Genesis Tech Systems

Flange: A domain specific language for network programming
Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Computer Science

Measuring Off Load Performance on Telco Applications
NTT Communications - NTT Communications Technology Department

Temporal Reasoning for Network Acceleration
Cambridge University - Systems Research Group

Hardware-Accelerated NFV for DDoS
Carnegie Mellon University

Deep Data Plane Programmability for Telco Protocols
Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute - NGNI - Software-Based Networks

SENSS - Software-Defined Security Service
Information Sciences Institute - Deter Lab

Hardware/Software Co-Design for High-Performance Monitoring
International Computer Science Institute - The ICSI Networking and Security Group

Dynamic Traffic Engineering for Improved Network Security and Performance
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab - Communication and Networking Systems Group

Simplifying SDN Control with Automatic Switch Property Inference and Performance Optimization
University of Southern California - Networked Systems Laboratory

Low-Overhead User Space Dataplane Acceleration
University of Texas - Department of Computer Science

New In-Network Primitives for Accelerated I/O
University of Washington - Systems and Networking Group

Titan: Offload-Friendly Packet Scheduling for Multiqueue NICs
University of Wisconsin - WISDOM, UW-Madison

CANS: Consensus At Network Speed
Universita della Svizzera italiana - NetPaxos

Scalable Advanced Measurement Appliance
University of Massachusetts - Advanced Computing and Networking Systems Lab

P4 Inband Network Telemetry Use Cases
University of Missouri Kansas City - School of Computing and Engineering

Adaptive Shaping For Intelligent Data Center Utilization
University of Arizona - Advanced Datacenter Networking Group

Measurement Primitives on Flow Processors
University of California Davis - Robust and Ubiquitous Networking

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