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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Giri Prashanth Subramanian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Santhosh Prabhu Muraleedhara Prabhu, Champaign, IL (US);
Ravi Singhal, Pune, IN;
Atul Jadhav, Pune, IN;
Rohit Reja, Pune, IN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to formally verify a network with both physical and virtual components. The modeling and formal verification is performed by an apparatus comprising: a topology generator to generate a network model including a plurality of devices connected in a network; a flow modeler to add a rule to the network model, the rule to define a flow of network packets through the network model; a reduction mapper to identify the rules common to ones of the devices; and a mapping verifier to verify the network meets a user specification.