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SDN-Actors: Modeling and Verification of SDN Programs

Albert, E; Gómez-Zamalloa, M; Rubio, A; Sammartino, M; Silva, A; (2018) SDN-Actors: Modeling and Verification of SDN Programs. In: Havelund, K and Peleska, J and Roscoe, B and de Vink, E, (eds.) Proceedings of International Symposium on Formal Methods 2018. (pp. pp. 550-567). Springer Nature: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a recent networking paradigm that has become increasingly popular in the last decade. It gives unprecedented control over the global behavior of the network and provides a new opportunity for formal methods. Much work has appeared in the last few years on providing bridges between SDN and verification. This paper advances this research line and provides a link between SDN and traditional work on formal methods for verification of distributed software—actor-based modelling. We show how SDN programs can be seamlessly modelled using actors, and thus existing advanced model checking techniques developed for actors can be directly applied to verify a range of properties of SDN networks, including consistency of flow tables, violation of safety policies, and forwarding loops.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: SDN-Actors: Modeling and Verification of SDN Programs
Event: International Symposium on Formal Methods
Location: Oxford, UK
Dates: 15th-17th July 2018
ISBN: 0302-9743
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-95581-0
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_33
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_33
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, data security, formal logic, formal methods, formal verifications, model checking, program debugging, robots, safety critical systems, satisfiability, security systems, software engineering, software evaluation, specifications, temporal logic, verification
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060372
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