FPGA-based line-rate packet forwarding for the SCION future Internet architecture
Kamila Soucková · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2019
The SCION future Internet architecture is designed to provide route control, failure isolation, and explicit trust information for end-to-end communication.Its viability has already been demonstrated in production, but to work at Internet scale, it is necessary to make it perform at high bandwidth, reduce costs, and evaluate its suitability for eventual implementation in hardware.This project implements a SCION border router capable of line-rate packet forwarding, running on an FPGA target.We utilise P4, an emerging language for programming packet forwarding planes.This enables target independence, a quicker development cycle, and a more modular approach.Based on this work, we suggest changes to the SCION data plane that allow for more efficient processing in hardware.iii I would like to thank my advisors Prof.