CFP GUIDE

Please review our CFP Guide to answer many common questions before submitting.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

• CFP Close: Friday, August 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM CET Extended Monday, August 17, 2026 at 11:59 pm CET (Hard deadline)
• Posters and demos deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
• Acceptance notification: Monday, September 14, 2026
• Posters and demos notification: Monday, September 14, 2026
• Camera-ready: Monday, September 28, 2026

Submission Instructions

EuroP4 will use a double-blind review process. Papers should adhere to the ACM formatting requirements and should not exceed 6 pages (see workshop website page for details). Authors are required to present accepted papers at the workshop, and at least one author is required to register, at the full rate, for the paper to appear in the proceedings and the ACM digital library. One of the authors MUST present the accepted paper at the workshop. Exceptions from this policy for truly mitigating situations must be approved by the TPC Chairs before the beginning of the workshop.

Topics of Interest

We solicit original, previously unpublished ideas on research and engineering work enabled by P4, and work-in-progress reports in the form of short papers. We further encourage papers that propose new research directions or that could stimulate lively debate at the workshop. We invite submissions on a wide range of topics of interest, including, but not limited to:

• All aspects of P4-based network protocol research, including design, specification, verification, implementation, measurement, testing, and analysis.
• Design, analysis, and evaluation of network architectures using P4, e.g., specific algorithms and protocols for network virtualization or future Internet architectures.
• New applications enabled by P4, including in-network computing and data-driven networking
• Secure, reliable and dependable P4-based systems, including all aspects of monitoring, verification, debugging and troubleshooting networks enabled by P4
• P4-based based programmable data planes (programmable switch ASICs, SmartNICs, IPU/DPUs, etc.)
• New data plane hardware architectures (e.g., for in-network ML, in-network security, etc.)
• P4 end-host networking, offloading transport- and application-layer protocols to P4- enabled hardware
• Tools and frameworks for development using P4
• Contributions to the evolution of the P4 language

CODE OF CONDUCT

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COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVITY

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