Enabling Active Networks Services on A Gigabit Routing Switch

Wang, Phil; Jaeger, Robert F.; Duncan, Robert A.; Lavian, T.; Travostino, F.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8648-1_8

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“…Recently, commercial interest have also strengthened with the release of carrier class gigabyte active routers (Nortel Passport 8600 [24], Hitachi GR2000). So what makes the APN model such an attractive approach to networking'?…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Current directions in active programmable network

Lau

Jha

Hassan

Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on Networks, ICON 2001.

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Active Programmable Network (APN) has begun a n p w phenomenon in the logical view towards network in the Internet domain. Traditional technologies based on IP have viewed the network as a black box where the network is hidden from the upper layers. The advantage of this model is the simplicity and the robustness it can offee. Howevel; this model may not be appropriate for the future applications of the Internet where the integration of services are expected. APN can be considered as an alternative model where coniponents within the network are open for programniabilip.

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Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Current directions in active programmable network

Lau

Jha

Hassan

Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on Networks, ICON 2001.

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“…Openet originated from the open programmable architecture for Java-enabled network devices [1] and evolved with later works [2,5,6]. It is platform-neutral, and works closely with commercial nodes such as the Passport to efficiently use the available hardware resources.…”

Section: Openet On Passport Routing Switchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent network services through active flow manipulation

Lavian

Wang

Travostino

et al.

IEEE Intelligent Network 2001 Workshop. IN 2001 Conference Record (Cat. No.01TH8566)

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A significant challenge in today's Internet is the ability to efficiently introduce intelligent network services into commercial high performance network devices. This paper tackles the challenge by introducing the Active Flow Manipulation (AFM) mechanism, a key enabling technology of the programmable networking platform Openet. AFM enhances the control functionality of network devices through programmability. With AFM, customer network services can exercise intelligent network control by identifying specific flows and applying particular actions thereby altering their behavior in real-time. These services are dynamically deployed in the CPU-based control plane and are closely coupled with the silicon-based forwarding plane of the network node, without negatively impacting forwarding performance. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated by several experimental applications on a commercial network node.

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“…Openet originated from the open programmable architecture for Java-enabled network devices [1] has been evolving with later work [2,5,6]. It is platformneutral, and works closely with commercial nodes such as the Passport routing switch [4] and Alteon web switch [24] to provide the flexible networking programmability.…”

Section: Openet and Service Deploymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of Active Networks EEs, MIT ANTS [10] is a typical mechanism for dynamically composing and installing new transport protocols in networks, and actually it is a data-plane service that processes active packets or capsules directly. Through Openet, the ORE ANTS [6] is developed wrapping the MIT ANTS. It also uses AFM to collect specified capsules for CPU processing in the control plane.…”

Section: Active Network Service In Real Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling active flow manipulation in silicon-based network forwarding engines

Lavian

Wang²,

Travostino³

et al.

Proceedings DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition

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A significant challenge arising from today's increasing Internet traffic is the ability to flexibly incorporate intelligent control in high performance commercial network devices. This paper tackles this challenge by introducing the Active Flow Manipulation (AFM) mechanism to enhance traffic control intelligence of network devices through programmability. With AFM, customer network services can exercise active network control by identifying distinctive flows and applying specified actions to alter network behavior in real-time. These services are dynamically loaded through Openet by the CPU-based control unit of a network node and are closely coupled with its silicon-based forwarding engines, without negatively impacting forwarding performance. AFM is exposed as a key enabling technology of the programmable networking platform Openet. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated by four active network services on commercial network nodes.

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Enabling Active Networks Services on A Gigabit Routing Switch

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Current directions in active programmable network

Current directions in active programmable network

Intelligent network services through active flow manipulation

Enabling active flow manipulation in silicon-based network forwarding engines

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