Jiqiang Xia1, Qi Zhan1, Le Tian1,2,3,*, Yuxiang Hu1,2,3, Jianhua Peng4
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.1, pp. 1-19, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.069533
- 10 November 2025
Abstract The rapid growth of distributed data-centric applications and AI workloads increases demand for low-latency, high-throughput communication, necessitating frequent and flexible updates to network routing configurations. However, maintaining consistent forwarding states during these updates is challenging, particularly when rerouting multiple flows simultaneously. Existing approaches pay little attention to multi-flow update, where improper update sequences across data plane nodes may construct deadlock dependencies. Moreover, these methods typically involve excessive control-data plane interactions, incurring significant resource overhead and performance degradation. This paper presents P4LoF, an efficient loop-free update approach that enables the controller to reroute multiple flows through More >