Functional Composition and Its Challenges

Functional composition is an approach for a flexible network architecture which enables a customized combination of functionality with respect to application requirements. Functional composition overcomes the inflexibility of the current Internet architecture and facilitates the management of functi...

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Main Authors: Siddiqui, A., Khondoker, R., Reuther, B., Mueller, P., Henke, C., Backhaus, H.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Computer architecture
Conferences
Functional Composition
Future Network Architecture
Internet
IP networks
Protocols
Runtime
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Summary:Functional composition is an approach for a flexible network architecture which enables a customized combination of functionality with respect to application requirements. Functional composition overcomes the inflexibility of the current Internet architecture and facilitates the management of functionality within the network. Several projects have addressed this topic with different aspects, in this paper several main challenges of network functional composition are identified and discussed.
DOI:10.1109/IMIS.2011.84