A Programmable SRv6 Processor for SFC
Round 1
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Reviewer 2 Report
The purpose of this article is to highlight a Deparser module of the RMT architecture. Thus the authors propose a Deparser plus module with complex instruction sets to process packets of increased complexity. Deparser plus presents a programmable architecture proposed SRV6 processor that performs a set of SRV6 packet processing. Deparser plus has been tested to add only moderate overhead to existing RMT pipelines. As a result, it allows packet processing at line rate.
In this work, seven instructions in Deparser plus were realized. These seven complex instructions, together with the reduced instructions of the RMT architecture, contain most of the operations required for complex packet processing.
In this paper the authors have demonstrated that the programmable SRv6 processor supports a wide range of possible application scenarios, such as VXLAN, SRoU, INT and SFC.
The comparison and analysis of these four application scenarios have been presented.
While the paper presents an important and consequent work some shortcomings remain important and need to be improved:
1) The state of the art needs to be enriched and recent references used several are very old (17, 1315, 1923)
2) The results section needs to be enriched and improved as it does not highlight the quality of the proposed approach compared to the literature and current works.
3) The discussion part is missing in this paper and makes it incomplete. A study of the qualities but also the defects of this incomplete system needs to be proposed
4) It is important to respect the template of the electronics journal in which you have submitted this paper.
Thus a major revision must be proposed to improve this paper.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The state of the art section needs to be enriched.
It is necessary to take into account the template of the journal.
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