<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dilip Joseph</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ion Stoica</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Modeling Middleboxes</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Network, IEEE</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">09/2008</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">22</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">20-25</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The lack of a concise and standard language to describe diverse middlebox functionality and deployment configurations adversely affects current middlebox deployment, as well as middlebox-related research. To alleviate this problem, we present a simple middlebox model that succinctly describes how different middleboxes process packets and illustrate it by representing four common middleboxes. We set up a pilot online repository of middlebox models and prototyped model inference and validation tools.</style></abstract><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10208553</style></accession-num></record></records></xml>