The Programmable Data Plane

Programmable data plane technology enables the systematic reconfiguration of low-level processing steps applied to network packets and is a key driver in realizing next generation services applications. This survey presents recent trends issues design implementation programmable devices, focusing on prominent architectures, abstractions, algorithms, applications proposed, debated, realized over past years. We elaborate that led emergence this highlight most important pointers from literature, casting different taxonomies for field identifying avenues future research.