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POPL 2019
Sun 13 - Sat 19 January 2019 Cascais, Portugal
Tue 15 Jan 2019 16:30 - 17:00 at Sala III - Networks and Concurrency Chair(s): Cezara Drăgoi

Frequent configuration churn caused by maintenance, upgrades, hardware and firmware failures regularly leads to costly outages. Preventing network outages caused by misconfigurations is important for ensuring high network availability. Dealing with production datacenters with thousands of routers is a major challenge.

Network verification inspects the forwarding tables of routers. These tables are determined by the so-called control plane, which is given by the steady state of the routing protocols. The ability to simulate routing protocols given router configuration files and thus obtain the control plane is a key enabling technology.

In this paper, we present FastPlane, an efficient BGP simulator. BGP support is mandated by modern datacenter designs, which choose BGP as the routing protocol. The key to FastPlane’s performance is our insight into the routing policy of cloud datacenters that allows the usage of a generalized Dijkstra’s algorithm. The insight reveals that these networks are monotonic, i.e., route advertisements decrease preference when propagated through the network.

The evaluation on real world, production datacenters of a major cloud provider shows that FastPlane 1) is two orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art on small and medium datacenters, and 2) goes beyond the state-of-the-art by scaling to large datacenters. FastPlane was instrumental in finding several production bugs in router firmware, routing policy, and network architecture.

Tue 15 Jan

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16:00 - 17:30
Networks and ConcurrencyVMCAI at Sala III
Chair(s): Cezara Drăgoi INRIA, ENS, CNRS
16:00
30m
Talk
On the Semantics of Snapshot Isolation
VMCAI
Azalea Raad MPI-SWS, Germany, Ori Lahav Tel Aviv University, Viktor Vafeiadis MPI-SWS, Germany
16:30
30m
Talk
Fast BGP Simulation of Large Datacenters
VMCAI
Nuno P. Lopes Microsoft Research, Andrey Rybalchenko Microsoft Research
Pre-print
17:00
30m
Talk
Parametric Timed Broadcast Protocols
VMCAI
Étienne André LIPN, CNRS UMR 7030, Université Paris 13, Benoit Delahaye , Paulin Fournier , Didier Lime
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