Current directions in active programmable network

Lau, W.; Jha, Sanjay; Hassan, Mahbub

doi:10.1109/icon.2001.962347

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“…To shield substrate diversity, above technologies can be seen as a way to build virtual networks that hide the underlying network topology in order to improve the network service and open existing architectures for future applications [14,15]. The concept of multiple logical networks appeared in the networking literature several times in the past in different capacities [16,17]. Capitalizing on these ideas, many projects had been established in the last decade that championed the core concept of coexisting, possibly heterogeneous, logical networks on a shared physical infrastructure [18,19].…”

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Providing personalized converged services based on flexible network reconfiguration

Lan

2011

Sci. China Inf. Sci.

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Recent developments show a progressing convergence of networks, services, and applications, which results in the necessity for new approaches to provide a ubiquitous experience on converged networks for specialized high data-rate services. A fundamental diversifying attribute for the future physical network convergence paradigm is pressing. In this paper, we make researches on converged resource reconfiguration model of substrate physical network based on hardware virtualization and provide a service oriented network architecture as a network convergence primitive. Based on the idea of hardware virtualization which is performed by platform deformation and component processing with reconfiguration (here, they are realized as reconfigurable routers (RR)), the substrate converged network, which inter-connects various access networks by reconfigurable routers, could be mapped into multiplex service oriented logical networks, supports dynamic reconfiguration due to diversified quality of services under heterogeneous environment, and therefore provides more flexible and highspeed multiple services. In addition, to demonstrate the generality of our model, we provide a prototype of reconfigurable router. The design, implementation and task scheduling as well as both hardware and software reconfiguration process of reconfigurable router are discussed in detail. Our evaluation shows that reconfigurable router is transparent for upper service-providing networks and results in little performance impact on the service delivery when both hardware and software reconfiguration are used.

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Providing personalized converged services based on flexible network reconfiguration

Lan

2011

Sci. China Inf. Sci.

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“…Active Programmable Networks [6] (APN) introduce a new type of service model, which promotes a higher degree of flexibility and control. APN proposes opening up the network to allow special computations to be executed.…”

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APLS: active protocol label switching

Lau

Jha

IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2003. ICC '03.

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The current trend of increasing accessibility and reachability of the Internet has resulted in many new services at the application layer. The potential growth of services on the Internet is only restricted by the network technologies that realize the Internet. In particular, Layer 3 technologies are conventionally inflexible and do not adapt well to rapid changes in the Internet environment. Service-oriented networks should be more user-focused, which includes providing mechanisms that show value to the network providers, service providers, and clients. The next generation networking technologies must not only excel in performance, but also in flexibility, control, and scalability.This paper introduces a new network architecture called Active Protocol Label Switching (APLS), which establishes a foundation offering the same level of performance and scalability as current label-switching architectures but with the flexibility and control that existing label-switching architectures lack.All existing label-switching architectures position the label as a shim layer between layers 2 and 3. The major reason behind this is to make the architecture network protocol independent. However, in designing APLS we investigated the merit of a new concept: Label Switching Over IP. Several other new concepts are introduced: Virtual Label Space, Micro-Instruction Architecture, and Micro-Policy-based Forwarding. We will also focus on how APLS can be combined with Active Programmable Networks to offer services at an unprecedented level.

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CDS: a code distribution scheme for active networks

Zhou

Zhang

2004

Computer Communications

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Current directions in active programmable network

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Providing personalized converged services based on flexible network reconfiguration

Providing personalized converged services based on flexible network reconfiguration

APLS: active protocol label switching

CDS: a code distribution scheme for active networks

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