Title :
Extensible routers for active networks
Author :
Shalaby, Nadia ; Peterson, Larry ; Bavier, Andy ; Gottlieb, Yitzhak ; Karlin, Scott ; Nakao, Aki ; Qie, Xiaohu ; Spalink, Tammo ; Wawrzoniak, Mike
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
fDate :
6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper describes our effort to build an extensible router in support of active networks. Our work is driven by two goals: (1) supporting the injection of new functionality into a router, and (2) exploiting commercially available hardware. Our approach is a hierarchical architecture, in which packet flows traverse a range of processing/forwarding paths. This paper both presents the architecture, and describes our experiences implementing the architecture across a combination of general-purpose and network processors.
Keywords :
Internet; Unix; microprocessor chips; network operating systems; telecommunication network routing; Internet; Linux; active networks; commercially available hardware; extensible router; general-purpose processors; hierarchical architecture; network processors; open operating system; packet flows; Computer science; Forward contracts; Hardware; IP networks; Information filtering; Information filters; Quality of service; Robustness; Routing; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
DARPA Active NEtworks Conference and Exposition, 2002. Proceedings
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1564-9
DOI :
10.1109/DANCE.2002.1003486
