Publications by Solal Vincenzo Pirelli

Automated Formal Verification of Software Network Functions

Formally verifying the correctness of software is necessary to merit the trust people put in software systems. Currently, formal verification requires human effort to prove that a piece of code matches its specification and code changes to improve verifiab ...

EPFL2024

Automated Verification of Network Function Binaries

George Candea, Aikaterini Argyraki, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli

Formally verifying the correctness of software network functions (NFs) is necessary for network reliability, yet existing techniques require full source code and mandate the use of specific data structures. We describe an automated technique to verify NF b ...

USENIX Association2022

A Simpler and Faster NIC Driver Model for Network Functions

George Candea, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli

The advent of software network functions calls for stronger correctness guarantees and higher performance at every level of the stack. Current network stacks trade simplicity for performance and flexibility, especially in their driver model. We show that p ...

2021

Verifying Software Network Functions with No Verification Expertise

George Candea, Aikaterini Argyraki, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa, Matteo Rizzo

We present the design and implementation of Vigor, a software stack and toolchain for building and running software network middleboxes that are guaranteed to be correct, while preserving competitive performance and developer productivity. Developers write ...

ACM2019

Performance Contracts for Software Network Functions

George Candea, Aikaterini Argyraki, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli, Arseniy Zaostrovnykh, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa

Software network functions (NFs), or middleboxes, promise flexibility and easy deployment of network services but face the serious challenge of unexpected performance behaviour. We propose the notion of a performance contract, a construct formulated in ter ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

A Formally Verified NAT Stack

George Candea, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli, Arseniy Zaostrovnykh

Prior work proved a stateful NAT network function to be semantically correct, crash-free, and memory safe. Their toolchain verifies the network function code while assuming the underlying kernel-bypass framework, drivers, operating system, and hardware to ...

2018

A Formally Verified NAT Stack

George Candea, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli, Arseniy Zaostrovnykh

Prior work proved a stateful NAT network function to be, crash-free, memory safe and semantically correct [29]. Their toolchain verifies the network function code while assuming the underlying kernel-bypass framework, drivers, operating system, and hardwar ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

A Formally Verified NAT

George Candea, Aikaterini Argyraki, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli, Arseniy Zaostrovnykh, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa

We present a Network Address Translator (NAT) written in C and proven to be semantically correct according to RFC 3022, as well as crash-free and memory-safe. There exists a lot of recent work on network verification, but it mostly assumes models of networ ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017