Title :
Modeling middleboxes
Author :
Joseph, Dilip ; Stoica, Ion
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Abstract :
The lack of a concise and standard language to describe diverse middlebox functionality and deployment configurations adversely affects current middlebox deployment, as well as middlebox-related research. To alleviate this problem, we present a simple middlebox model that succinctly describes how different middleboxes process packets and illustrate it by representing four common middleboxes. We set up a pilot online repository of middlebox models and prototyped model inference and validation tools.
Keywords :
computer networks; security of data; deployment configurations; middlebox functionality; middleboxes modeling; model inference; validation tools; Concrete; Databases; Filtering; IP networks; Local area networks; Middleboxes; Network address translation; Pattern matching; Predictive models; Web server;
Journal_Title :
Network, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MNET.2008.4626228
