Recent Advances in Declarative Networking

Declarative networking is a programming methodology that enables developers to concisely specify network protocols and services, and directly compile these specifications into a dataflow framework for execution. This paper describes recent advances in declarative networking, tracing its evolution from a rapid prototyping framework towards a platform that serves as an important bridge connecting formal theories for reasoning about protocol correctness and actual implementations. In particular, the paper focuses on the use of declarative networking for addressing four main challenges in the distributed systems development cycle: the generation of safe routing implementations, debugging, security and privacy, and optimizing distributed systems.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: PADL
• Authors: Boon Thau Loo, Harjot Gill, Changbin Liu, Yun Mao, William R. Marczak, Micah Sherr, Anduo Wang, Wenchao Zhou
• Keywords: Formal Theories, PADL 2012, Programming Languages, Programming Methodology, Prototyping Framework