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Citation
Alan Shieh, Emin Gun Sirer, Fred Schneider. "Netquery: A Knowledge Plane For Reasoning About Network Properties.". Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Conference, August, 2011.

Abstract
This paper presents the design and implementation of NetQuery, a knowledge plane for federated networks such as the Internet. In such networks, not all administrative domains will generate information that an application can trust and many administrative domains may have restrictive policies on disclosing network information. Thus, both the trustworthiness and accessibility of network information pose obstacles to effective reasoning. NetQuery employs trustworthy computing techniques to facilitate reasoning about the trustworthiness of information contained in the knowledge plane while preserving confidentiality guarantees for operator data. By characterizing information disclosure between operators, NetQuery enables remote verification of advertised claims and contractual stipulations; this enables new applications because network guarantees can span administrative boundaries. We have implemented NetQuery, built several NetQuery-enabled devices, and deployed applications for cloud datacenters, enterprise networks, and the Internet. Simulations, testbed experiments, and a deployment on a departmental network indicate NetQuery can support hundreds of thousands of operations per second and can thus scale to large ISPs.

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  Alan Shieh, Emin Gun Sirer, Fred Schneider. "Netquery:
  A Knowledge Plane For Reasoning About Network
  Properties.". Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Conference,
  August, 2011.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{ShiehSirerSchneider11_NetqueryKnowledgePlaneForReasoningAboutNetworkProperties,
      author = {Alan Shieh and Emin Gun Sirer and Fred Schneider},
      title = {Netquery: A Knowledge Plane For Reasoning About
                Network Properties.},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Conference},
      month = {August},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {This paper presents the design and implementation
                of NetQuery, a knowledge plane for federated
                networks such as the Internet. In such networks,
                not all administrative domains will generate
                information that an application can trust and many
                administrative domains may have restrictive
                policies on disclosing network information. Thus,
                both the trustworthiness and accessibility of
                network information pose obstacles to effective
                reasoning. NetQuery employs trustworthy computing
                techniques to facilitate reasoning about the
                trustworthiness of information contained in the
                knowledge plane while preserving confidentiality
                guarantees for operator data. By characterizing
                information disclosure between operators, NetQuery
                enables remote verification of advertised claims
                and contractual stipulations; this enables new
                applications because network guarantees can span
                administrative boundaries. We have implemented
                NetQuery, built several NetQuery-enabled devices,
                and deployed applications for cloud datacenters,
                enterprise networks, and the Internet.
                Simulations, testbed experiments, and a deployment
                on a departmental network indicate NetQuery can
                support hundreds of thousands of operations per
                second and can thus scale to large ISPs.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/877.html}
  }
  

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