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

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

116

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

DARPA Active NEtworks Conference and Exposition, 2002. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1564-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DANCE.2002.1003486

Filename

1003486