NetEgg: Programming Network Policies by Examples

The emergence of programmable interfaces to network controllers offers network operators the flexibility to implement a variety of policies. We propose NetEgg, a programming framework that allows a network operator to specify the desired functionality using example behaviors. Our synthesis algorithm automatically infers the state that needs to be maintained to exhibit the desired behaviors along with the rules for processing network packets and updating the state. We report on an initial prototype of NetEgg. Our experiments evaluate the proposed framework based on the number of examples needed to specify a variety of policies considered in the literature, the computational requirements of the synthesis algorithm to translate these examples to programs, and the overhead introduced by the generated implementation for processing packets. Our results show that NetEgg can generate implementations that are consistent with the example behaviors, and have performance comparable to equivalent imperative implementations.