The programmable network data plane allows to reconfigure and reprogram, even in operation, the low-level packet forwarding and packer processing functionality of a network. For IPv6 it has kept tens of years until eventually all network gear gained IPv6 support, in the era of the reconfigurable data plane this is only a matter of minutes. Today, several easy-to-program (OpenFlow, P4) and high-performance (up to terabit per sec) programmable data plane platforms are available (Barefoot/Tofino, Intel/Flexpipe, Open vSwitch, BESS). The task of the student is to join the research and development work that is done in the course of the collaboration of Ericsson, a University of Berkeley, California, and the Department.

The programmable network data plane allows to reconfigure and reprogram, even in operation, the low-level packet forwarding and packer processing functionality of a network. For IPv6 it has kept tens of years until eventually all network gear gained IPv6 support, in the era of the reconfigurable data plane this is only a matter of minutes. Today, several easy-to-program (OpenFlow, P4) and high-performance (up to terabit per sec) programmable data plane platforms are available (Barefoot/Tofino, Intel/Flexpipe, Open vSwitch, BESS). The task of the student is to join the research and development work that is done in the course of the collaboration of Ericsson, a University of Berkeley, California, and the Department.