Robustifying Network Protocols with Adversarial Examples
Tomer Gilad, Nathan H. Jay, Michael Shnaiderman, Brighten Godfrey, Michael Schapira · 2019
Ideally, network protocols (e.g., for routing, congestion control, video streaming, etc.) will perform well across the entire range of environments in which they might operate. Unfortunately, this is typically not the case; a protocol might fail to achieve good performance when network conditions deviate from assumptions implicitly or explicitly underlying its design, or due to specific implementation choices. Identifying exact conditions in which a specific protocol fares badly (though good performance is feasible to attain) is, however, not always easy as the reasons for protocol suboptimality or misbehavior might be elusive.