Adaptive network services on advanced relay nodes

The explosive growth of usage with diversifying communication technologies and applications imposes the Internet to manage further scalability and diversity, which requires more adaptive and flexible sharing schemes of network resource. Especially when a number of distributed applications concurrently share the resource, efficacy on comprehensive usage of network, computation, and storage resources is needed to achieve a good information processing performance as a whole. In response to this problem, we have proposed a concept of adaptive network services enabled by advanced relay nodes. In this paper, we demonstrate the effectiveness of advanced relay processing, rather than simple IP forwarding, using a prototype implementation of advanced relay nodes.