Specification of Network Services and Mapping Algorithms

In recent year, the functionality of networking infrastructure has expanded to the point where routers not only provide data connectivity but also a variety of processing services. A major challenge in this context is to manage these processing resources and to allocate them to data transfers in an efficient manner. In our work, we present a novel way of how end-system applications can specify resource requirements. We explore the performance of several heuristic approaches to solving the intractable problem of mapping requirements to system resources.