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Mengjing Ma
dblp:299/2211
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 2 · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer networks
2 papers |
Network management and operations · 42% Network measurement and analytics · 28% Software-defined and programmable networks · 21% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Program verification · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network management and operations › network verification
data plane verification |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Aquila: a practically usable verification system for production-scale programmable data planes · SIGCOMM 2021 |
Network management and operations
network verification |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Aquila: a practically usable verification system for production-scale programmable data planes · SIGCOMM 2021 |
Software-defined and programmable networks
programmable data plane |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Aquila: a practically usable verification system for production-scale programmable data planes · SIGCOMM 2021 |
Program verification
equivalence checking |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Aquila: a practically usable verification system for production-scale programmable data planes · SIGCOMM 2021 |
Program verification › refinement
refinement proof |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Aquila: a practically usable verification system for production-scale programmable data planes · SIGCOMM 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sequential encoding · 1.0high-level specification language · 1.0traffic generation · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Norma: Towards Practical Network Load Testing
Bingchuan Tian, Chen Tian 0001, Yu Zhou 0008, Mengjing Ma, Zhewen Yang, Guihai Chen, Dennis Cai, Ennan Zhai |
NSDI | 6 |
| 2021 | Aquila: a practically usable verification system for production-scale programmable data planesabstractThis paper presents Aquila, the first practically usable verification system for Alibaba's production-scale programmable data planes. Aquila addresses four challenges in building a practically usable verification: (1) specification complexity; (2) verification scalability; (3) bug localization; and (4) verifier self validation. Specifically, first, Aquila proposes a high-level language that facilitates easy expression of specifications, reducing lines of specification codes by tenfold compared to the state-of-the-art. Second, Aquila constructs a sequential encoding algorithm to circumvent the exponential growth of states associated with the upscaling of data plane programs to production level. Third, Aquila adopts an automatic and accurate bug localization approach that can narrow down suspects based on reported violations and pinpoint the culprit by simulating a fix for each suspect. Fourth and finally, Aquila can perform self validation based on refinement proof, which involves the construction of an alternative representation and subsequent equivalence checking. To this date, Aquila has been used in the verification of our production-scale programmable edge networks for over half a year, and it has successfully prevented many potential failures resulting from data plane bugs. Bingchuan Tian, Mengqi Liu 0001, Ennan Zhai, Yu Zhou 0008, Mengjing Ma, Xionglie Wei, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Ming Zhang 0005, Chen Tian 0001, Minlan Yu |
SIGCOMM | 9 |