OpenBNG: Central office network functions on programmable data plane hardware

Broadband Network Gateway implementation using a programmable data plane processor

The broadband network gateway (BNG) play a crucial role in today’s networks, it hands all access network traffic (e.g DSL traffic), provisioning of such policies like rate limiter, tunneling and complex network management mechanisms that an Internet service providers (ISPs) needs to implement his services. These network devices are expensive, proprietary, limited and slow device upgrading, beco...

Low-power focal-plane dynamic texture segmentation based on programmable image binning and diffusion hardware

Stand-alone applications of vision are severely constrained by their limited power budget. This is one of the main reasons why vision has not yet been widely incorporated into wireless sensor networks. For them, image processing should be suscribed to the sensor node in order to reduce network traffic and its associated power consumption. In this scenario, operating the conventional acquisition...

Resource management in hardware systems for programmable network nodes

Prototyping on the PC with Programmable Hardware

This paper describes how to design and use a framework of hardware and software for flexible interfacing and prototyping on the PC. The hardware comprises a card with programmable hardware provided by FPGAs, with an interface including DMA block transfer and interrupts. A library of hardware macros is described. Software routines are provided to enable the FPGAs to be programmed and to allow co...

Fingerprinting Digital Circuits on Programmable Hardware

Advanced CAD tools and high-density VLSI technologies have combined to create a new market for reusable digital designs. The economic viability of the new core-based design paradigm is pending on the development of techniques for intellectual property protection. A design watermark is a permanent identification code that is difficult to detect and remove, is an integral part of the design, and ...