Extensible routers for active networks

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 pac...

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Main Authors: Shalaby, N., Peterson, L., Bavier, A., Gottlieb, Y., Karlin, S., Nakao, A., Xiaohu Qie, Spalink, T., Wawrzoniak, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer science
Forward contracts
Hardware
Information filtering
Information filters
IP networks
Quality of service
Robustness
Routing
Web and internet services
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Summary: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.
DOI:10.1109/DANCE.2002.1003486