Title
A Framework for Verification-Oriented User-Friendly Network Function Modeling.
Abstract
Network virtualization and softwarization will serve as a new way to implement new services, increases network functionality and flexibility. However, the increasing complexity of the services and the management of very large scale environments drastically complicate detecting alerts and configuration errors of the network components. Nowadays, misconfigurations can be identified using formal analysis of network components for compliance with network requirements. Unfortunately, formal specification of network services requires familiarity with discrete mathematical modeling languages of verification tools, which requires extensive training for network engineers to have the essential knowledge. This paper addresses the above-mentioned problem by presenting a framework designed for automatically extracting verification models starting from an abstract representation of a given network function. Using guidelines provided in this paper, vendors can describe the forwarding behavior of their network function in developer-friendly, high-level languages, which can be then translated into formal verification models of different verification tools.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2929325
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Network function modeling,model extraction,NFV
Journal
7
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guido Marchetto18620.64
Riccardo Sisto255656.79
Fulvio Valenza35411.17
Jalolliddin Yusupov432.07