NetTrails: a declarative platform for maintaining and querying provenance in distributed systems

We demonstrate NetTrails, a declarative platform for maintaining and interactively querying network provenance in a distributed system. Network provenance describes the history and derivations of network state that result from the execution of a distributed protocol. It has broad applicability in the management, diagnosis, and security analysis of networks. Our demonstration shows the use of NetTrails for maintaining and querying network provenance in a variety of distributed settings, ranging from declarative networks to unmodified legacy distributed systems. We conclude our demonstration with a discussion of our ongoing research on enhancing the query language and security guarantees. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.4 [Computer Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems—Distributed Applications; E.1 [Data Structures]: Distributed Data Structures; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces—Graphical User Interfaces General Terms Design, Management

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Wenchao Zhou, Qiong Fei, Shengzhi Sun, Tao Tao, Andreas Haeberlen, Zachary G. Ives, Boon Thau Loo, Micah Sherr
• Keywords: Computer Communication Networks, Database, Graphical User Interfaces, Querying Network, SIGMOD 2011