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A Fully Portable TCP Implementation Using XFSMs

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XTRA (XFSM for TRAnsport) is a first step towards "code-once-port-everywhere" transport protocols. XTRA's platform-agnostic programming abstraction, based on an extended finite state machine formalization of a desired transport layer task, is amenable not only to SW engines, but can be directly executed in CPU-less custom HW, thus permits to harness FPGA-based NICs' offloading opportunities without any re-coding effort. We experimentally demonstrate that XTRA enables us to port a customized TCP implementation across three completely different environments (HW proof-of-concept on a NetFPGA board, User-space SW over Linux' Open Data Plane, and NS3 emulator).

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SIGCOMM '18: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Conference on Posters and Demos
August 2018
165 pages
ISBN:9781450359153
DOI:10.1145/3234200
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  1. Data Plane Programmability
  2. Hardware Acceleration
  3. Offloading
  4. TCP

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SIGCOMM '18: ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Conference
August 20 - 25, 2018
Budapest, Hungary

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