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Attend a keynote presentation exploring the evolution of programming abstractions for packet processing and the need for new approaches to transport protocols. Learn from Fernando Ramos, P4 Workshop General Chair and Assistant Professor at University of Lisbon, who provides the welcome and awards ceremony, followed by a keynote address from Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo. Discover how programming abstractions for packet processing have gained widespread adoption over the past two decades, enabling network operators to specify packet processing logic in high-level, domain-specific languages independent of underlying hardware architecture. Explore the benefits of this approach, including compiler-driven generation of efficient low-level implementations, portability across diverse execution environments, and automated testing and verification. Understand the limitations of existing abstractions that primarily focus on L2-L3 packet processing and examine the critical need for new programming abstractions that can capture the complexities of network mechanisms essential for quality of service, particularly transport protocols. Gain insights into the future direction of network programming and the challenges that need to be addressed to advance transport protocol development in modern networking environments.
