Automated Software Engineering
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
OPERA: An open-source extensible router architecture for adding new network services and protocols
Journal of Systems and Software
Quality of service provisioning for composable routing elements
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Design, Analysis and Implementation of a Novel Multiple Resource Scheduler
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Revisiting multimedia streaming in mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
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Future routers will not only forward data packets but also provide value-added services, such as security, accounting, caching, and resource management. These services ran be implemented as general programs, to be invoked by traversing packets embedding router program calls. Software-programmable routers pose new challenges in the design of router operating systems (OS). First, router programs will require access to diverse system resources. The resource demands of a large community of heterogeneous resource consumers must either be coordinated to enable cooperation or arbitrated to resolve competition. Second, it is beneficial to concurrently support multiple virtual machines, each with a guaranteed share of physical resources. This allows services to be customized and to seamlessly evolve. We present the design and implementation of a next generation router OS that can meet the above challenges. We define an orthogonal kernel abstraction of resource allocation, which can schedule various time-shared and space-shared resources with quality of service (QoS) differentiation and guarantees. A scalable and flexible packet classifier enables dynamic resource binding and per-flow processing of received packets. We have prototyped our system on a network of UltraSPARC and Pentium II computers. Currently, QoS-aware schedulers for CPU time, forwarding bandwidth, memory-store capacity, and capacity for secondary data stores have been integrated. We present experimental results on various aspects of resource management in our system.