{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/dynetkat-an-algebra-of-dynamic-networks","title":"DyNetKAT: An Algebra of Dynamic Networks","arxiv_id":"2102.10035","date":"2021-02-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Georgiana Caltais","Hossein Hojjat","Mohammad Mousavi","Hunkar Can Tunc"],"abstract":"We introduce a formal language for specifying dynamic updates for Software Defined Networks. Our language builds upon Network Kleene Algebra with Tests (NetKAT) and adds constructs for synchronisations and multi-packet behaviour to capture the interaction between the control- and data-plane in dynamic updates. We provide a sound and ground-complete axiomatisation of our language. We exploit the equational theory to provide an efficient reasoning method about safety properties for dynamic networks. We implement our equational theory in DyNetiKAT -- a tool prototype, based on the Maude Rewriting Logic and the NetKAT tool, and apply it to a case study. We show that we can analyse the case study for networks with hundreds of switches using our initial tool prototype.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10035v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.10035v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"dynetkat-an-algebra-of-dynamic-networks","repo_url":"https://github.com/hcantunc/DyNetiKAT","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"dynetkat-an-algebra-of-dynamic-networks","repo_url":"https://github.com/canolmezoglu/dynetikat","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}