Network Synthesis

Correctly configuring a large network is a challenging and risky task for human operators. So we ask whether we can automatically generate the network configs, just like automatic generation of programs? We tentatively think this is possible, given the success of hardware synthesis and program synthesis, and of course the emergence of LLM. In this direction, we will try to adapt those techniques to the synthesize network configs or repair plans, so that a network can autonomously run and heal without any human.

Active Members
Peng Zhang
Professor
Ning Kang
Ph.D. Candidate
Jianyuan Zhang
Undergraduate
Selected Publications
Ning Kang Peng Zhang
Hao Li
Sisi Wen
Chaoyang Ji
, and 
Yongqiang Yang
IEEE Transactions on Networking
Xu Liu Peng Zhang
Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar
Jiawei Chen
, and 
Weirong Jiang
Proceedings of ACM HotNets'24
Ning Kang Peng Zhang Hao Li
Sisi Wen
Chaoyang Ji
, and 
Yongqiang Yang
Proceedings of IEEE ICNP'23
Hao Li
Changhao Wu
Guangda Sun
Peng Zhang
Danfeng Shan
Tian Pan
, and 
Chengchen Hu
Proceedings of USENIX NSDI'21