Towards an active network architecture

DL Tennenhouse, DJ Wetherall - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 1996 - dl.acm.org
Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the
network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with" capsules" …

Towards an active network architecture

DL Tennenhouse, DJ Wetherall - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the
network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with" capsules" …

A survey of active network research

DL Tennenhouse, JM Smith… - IEEE …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active networks are a novel approach to network architecture in which the switches (or
routers) of the network perform customized computations on the messages flowing through …

Application level active networking

M Fry, A Ghosh - Computer networks, 1999 - Elsevier
In this paper we describe and discuss an Application Level Active Network system. This
system provides the benefits of proposed Active Networks, including rapid and transparent …

An architecture for active networking

S Bhattacharjee, KL Calvert, EW Zegura - … (HPN '97), 28th April–2nd May …, 1997 - Springer
Active networking offers a change in the usual network paradigm: from passive carrier of bits
to a more general computation engine. The implementation of such a change is likely to …

A scalable high-performance active network node

DS Decasper, B Plattner, GM Parulkar, S Choi… - IEEE …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active networking in environments built to support link rates up to several gigabits per
second poses many challenges. One such challenge is that the memory bandwidth and …

Introducing new internet services: Why and how

D Wetherall, D Legedza, J Guttag - IEEE network, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active networks permit applications to inject programs into the nodes of local and, more
important, wide area networks. This supports faster service innovation by making it easier to …

[PDF][PDF] Service introduction in an active network

DJ Wetherall - 1998 - dspace.mit.edu
In today's networks, the evolution of wide-area services is constrained by standardization
and compatibility concerns. The result is that the introduction of a new service occurs much …

Implementation of a prototype active network

AB Kulkarni, GJ Minden, R Hill, Y Wijata… - 1998 IEEE Open …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active networks carry SmartPackets that contain both data and user-specified methods to
extend the functionality of switches to perform user-specific computation on the …

Improving the performance of distributed applications using active networks

U Legedza, D Wetherall, J Guttag - … to the 21st Century (Cat. No …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An active network allows applications to inject customized programs into network nodes.
This enables faster protocol innovation by making it easier to deploy new network protocols …