{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/p4sim-programming-protocol-independent-packet","title":"P4sim: Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors in ns-3","arxiv_id":"2503.17554","date":"2025-03-21","proceeding":null,"authors":["Mingyu Ma","Giang T. Nguyen"],"abstract":"Programmable data planes enable users to design data plane algorithms for network devices, providing extensive flexibility for network customization. Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors (P4) has become the most widely adopted abstraction, programming language, and framework for data plane programming. However, existing simulation platforms lack high-performance support for P4-based networks. This paper introduces P4sim, a high-performance P4-driven simulation framework built on bmv2 and NS4, seamlessly integrated with ns-3. It improves queue modeling, time scheduling, and P4 architecture support, extending compatibility to V1model, PSA, and PNA. P4sim enables efficient packet processing, accurate time tracking, and seamless interaction between P4-enabled hosts and switches. We evaluate the P4sim in terms of performance and queue management and demonstrate its capabilities using two common use cases: Basic Tunneling and Load Balancing. The results highlight the P4sim as a powerful tool for advancing research and education in programmable networks.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17554v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.17554v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"p4sim-programming-protocol-independent-packet","repo_url":"https://github.com/HapCommSys/p4sim","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}