Communications of the ACM
STOC '97 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
End-to-end arguments in system design
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Rethinking the design of the Internet: the end-to-end arguments vs. the brave new world
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
SCRIBE: The Design of a Large-Scale Event Notification Infrastructure
NGC '01 Proceedings of the Third International COST264 Workshop on Networked Group Communication
Deployment experience with differentiated services
RIPQoS '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Revisiting IP QoS: What have we learned, why do we care?
OpenDHT: a public DHT service and its uses
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Improving Traffic Locality in BitTorrent via Biased Neighbor Selection
ICDCS '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007
P4p: provider portal for applications
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Peering peer-to-peer providers
IPTPS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
E-AHRW: An Energy-Efficient Adaptive Hash Scheduler for Stream Processing on Multi-core Servers
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM/IEEE Seventh Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
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The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as "dumb network, smart end-systems", the original paper makes a more subtle argument about appropriate distribution of functionality among endpoints and intermediate systems. Functions may be implemented in the network for performance reasons, and when they offer value to a wide range of applications without inhibiting the correct operation of applications that do not need these functions. In this context, we describe a prototype platform for experimentation with novel, useful functions "inside" the network. This programmable platform allows service providers to innovate quickly and to deploy new functions within the network when it makes sense. By implementing the platform as an overlay, service providers can assist those applications that benefit from added functions such as caching and streaming support, without interfering with the correct and efficient operation of other applications that do not need them. Service providers can also leverage their detailed topological knowledge and ability to control network resources, features that would be difficult for conventional overlays. Programmability of the platform enables features to be extended or composed with other pieces of software, by either the service providers or third parties.