A practical approach to network-based processing

Author

Larrabeiti, D. ; Calderón, M. ; Azcorra, A. ; Urueña, M.

Author_Institution

Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The usage of general-purpose processors externally attached to routers to play virtually the role of active coprocessors seems a safe and cost-effective approach to add active network capabilities to existing routers. This paper reviews this router-assistant way of making active nodes, addresses the benefits and limitations of this technique, and describes a new platform based on it using an enhanced commercial router. The features new to this type of architecture are transparency, IPv4 and IPv6 support, and full control over layer 3 and above. A practical experience with two applications for path characterization and a transport gateway managing multi-QoS is described.

Keywords

local area networks; quality of service; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; IPv4 support; IPv6 support; active coprocessors; active network; active nodes; multi-QoS; network-based processing; path characterization; routers; transparency; transport gateway; 3G mobile communication; Coprocessors; Costs; Distributed processing; Global communication; Local area networks; Middleware; Protocols; Routing; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Active Middleware Services, 2002. Proceedings. Fourth Annual International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1721-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AMS.2002.1029684

Filename

1029684