RT Journal Article
T1 Actor-based model checking for Software-Defined Networks
A1 Albert Albiol, Elvira María
A1 Gómez-Zamalloa Gil, Miguel
A1 Isabel Márquez, Miguel
A1 Rubio, Albert
A1 Sammartino, Matteo
A1 Silva, Alexandra
AB Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a networking paradigm that has become increasingly popular in the last decade. The unprecedented control over the global behaviour of the network it provides opens a range of new opportunities for formal methods and much work has appeared in the last few years on providing bridges between SDN and verification. This article advances this research line and provides a link between SDN and traditional work on formal methods for verification of concurrent and 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 directlyapplied to verify a range of properties of SDNs, including consistency of flow tables, violation of safety policies, and forwarding loops. Our model checker for SDNs is available through an online web interface, that also provides the SDN actor-models for a number of well-known SDN benchmarks.
PB Elsevier
YR 2021
FD 2021-01-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96464
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96464
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 oct 2024