Applying formal methods to networking: theory, techniques, and applications
The work
| Title | Applying formal methods to networking: theory, techniques, and applications |
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| Authors | Junaid Qadir; Osman Hasan |
| Type | article |
| Year | 2015 |
| Also known as | qadir2014applying |
| Citekey | qadir2015applying |
Where it appeared
| Published in | IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials |
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| Publisher | IEEE |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 256--291 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1109/comst.2014.2345792 |
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| OpenAlex | W2105589190 |
Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1109/comst.2014.2345792 |
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| Free full text | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.4303 |
Abstract
Despite its great importance, modern network infrastructure is remarkable for the lack of rigor in its engineering. The Internet, which began as a research experiment, was never designed to handle the users and applications it hosts today. The lack of formalization of the Internet architecture meant limited abstractions and modularity, particularly for the control and management planes, thus requiring for every new need a new protocol built from scratch. This led to an unwieldy ossified Internet architecture resistant to any attempts at formal verification and to an Internet culture where expediency and pragmatism are favored over formal correctness. Fortunately, recent work in the space of clean slate Internet design—in particular, the software defined networking (SDN) paradigm—offers the Internet community another chance to develop the right kind of architecture and abstractions. This has also led to a great resurgence in interest of applying formal methods to specification, verification, and synthesis of networking protocols and applications. In this paper, we present a self-contained tutorial of the formidable amount of work that has been done in formal methods and present a survey of its applications to networking.
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| Retrieved | 2026-08-05 |
| Held | local, for personal reference |
| Where it came from | https://doi.org/10.1109/comst.2014.2345792 |
Where this came from
| How it got here | already cited · cited in bibtex |
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| First seen | 2026-08-04 |
| Record | reviewed by a person |
| Approved | 2026-08-18 |
Cite it as
@article{qadir2015applying,
title = {Applying formal methods to networking: theory, techniques, and applications},
author = {Junaid Qadir and Osman Hasan},
year = {2015},
journal = {IEEE Communications Surveys \& Tutorials},
volume = {17},
number = {1},
pages = {256--291},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi = {10.1109/comst.2014.2345792},
url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.4303},
}
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