Active networks: A comparative study Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Traditional networks cannot be upgraded easily with new services especially that these services may have to be integrated into all the intermediate and end nodes which is a difficult and time consuming task. Active networks, unlike traditional ones, allow applications to inject customized programs into the network nodes. They are not just a passive carrier of bits but rather a more general computational model. They can be viewed as a set of active programmable nodes that perform customized operations on the data flowing through them. They provide a mechanism to upgrade a network with new protocols and services in an efficient and quick manner without the need to rebuild the structure of the entire network. There are many protocols to build active networks. In this paper we introduce, discuss, and compare the existing protocols and approaches that can be used to build active networks.

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing, CIC 2008

author list (cited authors)

  • Safa, H., Karam, M., Soukiassian, Y., Yaghi, L., & Hashem, A

complete list of authors

  • Safa, H||Karam, M||Soukiassian, Y||Yaghi, L||Hashem, A

publication date

  • January 2008