Network Verification

Network is a critical infrastructure but configuring it is rather complex and easily goes wrong. Traditionally, after a network error is detected, operators use measurement tools to localize the root causes. Such a post-effect approach puts networks at risks of unpredictable down time. Network verification is a revolutional approach: it uses formal methods to either prove the correctness of configurations, or finds counterexamples that violate correctness properties, such that potential outages can be prevented.

Active Members
Peng Zhang
Professor
Ning Kang
Assistant Professor
Dan Wang
Ph.D. Candidate
Zhenrong Gu
Master Student
Jimeng Liu
Undergraduate
Xiatian Wu
Undergraduate
Yifeng Pei
Undergraduate
Selected Publications
Yongzheng Zhang
, 
Yaxuan Lin
, 
Haoxian Chen
, 
Ruize Ma
, 
Amirmohammad Nazari
, 
Mukund Raghothaman
, and  Peng Zhang
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '26
Dan Wang ,  Peng Zhang ,  Zhenrong Gu , 
Weibo Lin
, 
Shibiao Jiang
, 
Zhu He
, 
Xu Du
, 
Longfei Chen
, 
Jun Li
, and 
Xiaohong Guan
Proceedings of IEEE/ACM ASE '25
Zechun Li ,  Peng Zhang ,  Yichi Zhang , and 
Hongkun Yang
Proceedings of USENIX NSDI '25
Outstanding Paper Award
Peng Zhang , 
Hui Wu
, 
Dan Zhang
, and 
Qi Li
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Peng Zhang ,  Xu Liu , 
Hongkun Yang
,  Ning Kang , 
Zhengchang Gu
, and  Hao Li
Proceedings of USENIX NSDI '20
Peng Zhang ,  Hao Li , 
Chengchen Hu
, 
Liujia Hu
, and 
Lei Xiong
Proceedings of ACM/IEEE ANCS '16
Peng Zhang ,  Hao Li , 
Chengchen Hu
, 
Liujia Hu
, 
Lei Xiong
, 
Ruilong Wang
, and 
Yuemei Zhang
Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT '16