Nikolaj Bjorner, Nate Foster, Philip Brighten Godfrey, and Pamela Zave. Formal Foundations for Networking (Dagstuhl Seminar 15071). Dagstuhl Reports, 5(2):44--63, 2015. [ DOI | http ]
Martin Casado, Nate Foster, and Arjun Guha. Abstractions for Software-Defined Networks. CACM, 57(10):86--95, October 2014. [ full version ]
Nate Foster, Michael J. Freedman, Arjun Guha, Rob Harrison, Naga Praveen Katta, Christopher Monsanto, Joshua Reich, Mark Reitblatt, Jennifer Rexford, Cole Schlesinger, Alec Story, and David Walker. Languages for software-defined networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(2):128--134, 2013. [ pdf | official version ]
Joshua Reich, Christopher Monsanto, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. Modular SDN Programming with Pyretic. ;login Magazine, 38(5):128--134, 2013. [ pdf | official version ]
Jedidiah McClurg, Hossein Hojjat, Nate Foster, and Pavol Cerny. Event-Driven Network Programming. In ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Santa Barbara, CA, June 2016. [ conference version ]
Nate Foster, Dexter Kozen, Konstantinos Mamouras, Mark Reitblatt, and Alexandra Silva. Probabilistic NetKAT. In European Symposium on Programming (ESOP), Eindhoven, Netherlands, April 2016. [ conference version ]
Karla Saur, Joseph Collard, Nate Foster, Arjun Guha, Laurent Vanbever, and Michael Hicks. Safe and Flexible Controller Upgrades for SDNs. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software-Defined Networking Research (SOSR), Santa Clara, CA, March 2016. [ conference version ]
Haoxian Chen, Nate Foster, Jake Silverman, Michael Whittaker, Brandon Zhang, and Rene Zhang. Felix: Implementing Traffic Measurement on End Hoses Using Program Analysis. In ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software-Defined Networking Research (SOSR), Santa Clara, CA, March 2016. [ conference version ]
Steffen Smolka, Spiridon Eliopoulos, Nate Foster, and Arjun Guha. A Fast Compiler for NetKAT. In ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Vancouver, Canada, September 2015. [ video | conference version | slides ]
Jedidiah McClurg, Hossein Hojjat, Pavol Cerny, and Nate Foster. Efficient Synthesis of Network Updates. In ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Portland, OR, June 2015. [ conference version ]
Nate Foster, Dexter Kozen, Matthew Milano, Alexandra Silva, and Laure Thompson. A Coalgebraic Decision Procedure for NetKAT. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Mumbai, India, January 2015. [ conference version ]
Robert Soulé, Shrutarshi Basu, Parisa Jalili Marandi, Fernando Pedone, Robert Kleinberg, Emin Gün Sirer, and Nate Foster. Merlin: A Language for Provisioning Network Resources. In ACM SIGCOMM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Sydney, Australia, December 2014. [ conference version ]
Carolyn Jane Anderson, Nate Foster, Arjun Guha, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Dexter Kozen, Cole Schlesinger, and David Walker. NetKAT: Semantic Foundations for Networks. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), San Diego, CA, January 2014. [ tech report | conference version ]
Robert Soulé, Shrutarshi Basu, Robert Kleinberg, Emin Gün Sirer, and Nate Foster. Managing the Network with Merlin. In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), College Park, MD, November 2013. [ conference version ]
Laurent Vanbever, Joshua Reich, Theophilus Benson, Nate Foster, and Jennifer Rexford. HotSwap: Correct and Efficient Controller Upgrades for Software-Defined Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN), Hong Kong, China, August 2013. [ conference version ]
Mark Reitblatt, Marco Canini, Arjun Guha, and Nate Foster. FatTire: Declarative Fault Tolerance for Software-Defined Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN), Hong Kong, China, August 2013. [ conference version ]
Arjun Guha, Mark Reitblatt, and Nate Foster. Machine-Verified Network Controllers. In ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Seattle, WA, June 2013. To appear. [ conference version ]
Christopher Monsanto, Joshua Reich, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. Composing Software Defined Networks. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Lombard, IL, April 2013. [ conference version ]
Naga Praveen Katta, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. Logic Programming for Software-Defined Networks. In Workshop on Cross-model Language Design and Implementation (XLDI), Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2012. [ conference version | slides ]
Mark Reitblatt, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, Cole Schlesinger, and David Walker. Abstractions for Network Update. In ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications (SIGCOMM) , Helsinki, Finland, pages 323--334, August 2012. [ conference version | slides ]
Stephen Gutz, Alec Story, Cole Schlesinger, and Nate Foster. Splendid Isolation: A Slice Abstraction for Software-Defined Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN), Helsinki, Finland, pages 79--84, August 2012. [ conference version | slides ]
Christopher Monsanto, Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, and David Walker. A Compiler and Run-time System for Network Programming Languages. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Philadelphia, PA, pages 217--230, January 2012. [ conference version | slides ]
Nate Foster, Michael J. Freedman, Rob Harrison, Christopher Monsanto, Mark Reitblatt, Jennifer Rexford, Alec Story, and David Walker. Language Abstractions for Software-Defined Networks. In Workshop on Languages for Distributed Algorithms (LADA), Philadelphia, PA, January 2012. [ conference version | slides ]
Mark Reitblatt, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. Consistent Updates for Software-Defined Networks: Change You Can Believe in! In ACM Workshop on ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Cambridge, MA, November 2011. [ conference version | slides ]
Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, Michael J. Freedman, Christopher Monsanto, Jennifer Rexford, Alec Story, and David Walker. Frenetic: A Network Programming Language. In ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Tokyo, Japan, September 2011. [ conference version | slides ]
Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, Matthew L. Meola, Michael J. Freedman, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. Frenetic: A High-Level Langauge for OpenFlow Networks. In ACM Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of Tomorrow (PRESTO), Philadelphia, PA, November 2010. [ conference version | slides ]
Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, Michael J. Freedman, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. Frenetic: A High-Level Langauge for OpenFlow Networks. Technical report, Cornell University, December 2010. [ tech report ]