Rethinking data-driven networking with foundation models: challenges and opportunities

F Le, M Srivatsa, R Ganti, V Sekar - … of the 21st ACM Workshop on Hot …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Foundational models have caused a paradigm shift in the way artificial intelligence (AI)
systems are built. They have had a major impact in natural language processing (NLP), and …

[PDF][PDF] DynPRE: Protocol reverse engineering via dynamic inference

Z Luo, K Liang, Y Zhao, F Wu, J Yu, H Shi… - 31th Annual Network …, 2024 - fouzhe.github.io
Automatic protocol reverse engineering is essential for various security applications. While
many existing techniques achieve this task by analyzing static network traces, they face …

Neural language models for network configuration: Opportunities and reality check

ZB Houidi, D Rossi - Computer Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Boosted by deep learning, natural language processing (NLP) techniques have recently
seen spectacular progress, mainly fueled by breakthroughs both in representation learning …

Automated attack synthesis by extracting finite state machines from protocol specification documents

ML Pacheco, M von Hippel, B Weintraub… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated attack discovery techniques, such as attacker synthesis or model-based fuzzing,
provide powerful ways to ensure network protocols operate correctly and securely. Such …

{SCALE}: Automatically finding {RFC} compliance bugs in {DNS} nameservers

SKR Kakarla, R Beckett, T Millstein… - 19th USENIX Symposium …, 2022 - usenix.org
The Domain Name System (DNS) has intricate features that interact in subtle ways. Bugs in
DNS implementations while handling combinations of these features can lead to incorrect or …

PROSPER: Extracting Protocol Specifications Using Large Language Models

P Sharma, V Yegneswaran - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs)(specifically GPT-3.5-turbo) to
extract specifications and automating understanding of networking protocols from Internet …

isyn: Semi-automated smart contract synthesis from legal financial agreements

P Fang, Z Zou, X Xiao, Z Liu - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Embracing software-driven smart contracts to fulfill legal agreements is a promising direction
for digital transformation in the legal sector. Existing solutions mostly consider smart …

Adapting foundation models for information synthesis of wireless communication specifications

M Kotaru - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04033, 2023 - arxiv.org
Existing approaches to understanding, developing and researching modern wireless
communication technologies involves time-intensive and arduous process of sifting through …

DAInfer: Inferring API Aliasing Specifications from Library Documentation via Neurosymbolic Optimization

C Wang, J Zhang, R Wu, C Zhang - Proceedings of the ACM on Software …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Modern software systems heavily rely on various libraries, necessitating understanding API
semantics in static analysis. However, summarizing API semantics remains challenging due …

Toward Reproducing Network Research Results Using Large Language Models

Q Xiang, Y Lin, M Fang, B Huang, S Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Reproducing research results is important for the networking community. The current best
practice typically resorts to:(1) looking for publicly available prototypes;(2) contacting the …