Service creation and management in active telecom networks
Communications of the ACM
A survey of programmable networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
PromethOS: A Dynamically Extensible Router Architecture Supporting Explicit Routing
IWAN '02 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference on Active Networks
Active Network Monitoring and Control: The SENCOMM Architecture and Implementation
DANCE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition
Active networks: architectures, composition, and applications
Active networks: architectures, composition, and applications
Future active Ip networks security architecture
Computer Communications
Active networking: one view of the past, present, and future
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Component-based execution environments of network elements and a protocol for their configuration
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
The IEEE P1520 standards initiative for programmable network interfaces
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Service management in multiparty active networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
The Tempest-a practical framework for network programmability
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A policy-based management architecture for active and programmable networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Next generation network nodes are required to function within heterogeneous network environments, where new services and protocols are rapidly deployed on demand. In such emerging environments, traditional node architectures that offer a predetermined and preloaded set of services, are increasingly incapable of coping with these new requirements. Accordingly, there is a need for new node architectures that offer higher degrees of flexibility measured by their capability to extend the functionality of the node and change its behaviour on demand. This paper makes use of programmable and active network technologies as developed during the FAIN project, to present a novel secure active node architecture, called the FAIN node architecture, capable of supporting virtual environments (VEs) for the allocation of the required amount of resources in which new services are dynamically deployed together with their entire execution environments (EEs). To this end, multiple VEs and services run simultaneously and interact securely with the node resources and mechanisms through open interfaces and the FAIN node management framework. We also present the implementation of the FAIN node architecture and two case studies that demonstrate its extensibility aspects and novel features.