New Peer-to-Peer system approach for service deployment

Active networks have been researched for years and many studies have been done in the active node architecture, the active networks protocols and the needed functionalities. However, some of these functionalities do not achieve satisfactory results. The deployment of services in active nodes still remains a challenge, and consequently inhibits the widespread use of such networks. In this paper, a new concept based on a peer-to-peer system to enhance the service deployment in active networks is presented. This P2P system is used by active nodes to advertise theirs capabilities, which enables ldquocontrol active nodesrdquo to perform the service deployment, depending on the service requirements and constraints. The concept of administrative domains is also taken into account for widespread active networks. The originality of this work lies on the complete integration of the active networks and P2P systems with the goal of rendering service operators the capacity to deploy new services according to each request and the availability of the resources.