POPL 2017
Sun 15 - Sat 21 January 2017
Thu 19 Jan 2017 16:30 - 16:55 at Auditorium - Logic and Programming Chair(s): Nada Amin

Operators in multi-tenant cloud datacenters require support for diverse and complex end-to-end policies, such as, reachability, middlebox traversals, isolation, traffic engineering, and network resource management. We present Genesis, a datacenter network management system which allows policies to be specified in a declarative manner without explicitly programming the network data plane. Genesis tackles the problem of enforcing policies by synthesizing switch forwarding tables. It uses the formal foundations of constraint solving in combination with fast off-the-shelf SMT solvers. To improve synthesis performance, Genesis incorporates a novel search strategy that uses regular expressions to specify properties that leverage the structure of datacenter networks, and a divide-and-conquer synthesis procedure which exploits the structure of policy relationships. We have prototyped Genesis, and conducted experiments with a variety of workloads on real-world topologies to demonstrate its performance.

Thu 19 Jan

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16:30 - 17:20
Logic and ProgrammingPOPL at Auditorium
Chair(s): Nada Amin EPFL
16:30
25m
Talk
Genesis: Synthesizing Forwarding Tables in Multi-tenant Networks
POPL
Kausik Subramanian University of Wisconsin-Madison, Loris D'Antoni University of Wisconsin–Madison, Aditya Akella University of Wisconsin-Madison
16:55
25m
Talk
LOIS: syntax and semantics
POPL