On programmable universal mobile channels in a cellular Internet
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A survey of programmable networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Network infrastructure for massively distributed games
NetGames '02 Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Network and system support for games
Challenges: environmental design for pervasive computing systems
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Application-level Programmable Internetwork Environment
BT Technology Journal
Open Extensible Network Control
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Open Signaling for ATM Networks: A Vexed Question of Performance
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Feature interaction: a critical review and considered forecast
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Enable QoS for Distributed Object Applications by ORB-Based Active Networking
IWAN '00 Proceedings of the Second International Working Conference on Active Networks
Managing Complexity of Designing Routing Protocols Using a Middleware Approach
CAiSE '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Informatics - 10 Years Back. 10 Years Ahead.
Service Logic Deployment and Distribution Configuration
IS&N '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Paving the Way for an Open Service Market
Introduction of accounting capabilities in future service architectures
Journal of Systems and Software
A conceptual model of service customization and its implementation
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Enabling Delivery of Mobile Services Over Heterogeneous Converged Infrastructures
Information Systems Frontiers
Y-Comm: a global architecture for heterogeneous networking
WICON '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Wireless internet
Design and implementation of control-extensible router
ICCNMC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Networking and Mobile Computing
A network-aware truncating module for scalable streams saving bandwidth for overused networks
MATA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
Retailer selection in future open competitive communications environments
Computer Communications
Distributed control of wireless ATM networks using CORBA
Computer Communications
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The move toward market deregulation and open competition has sparked a wave of serious introspection in the telecommunications service industry. Telecom providers and operators are now required to open up their primary revenue channels to competing industries. The competition for product differentiation increasingly depends on the level of sophistication, degree of flexibility, and speed of deployment of services that a future provider can offer. These factors in turn depend heavily on the flexibility of the software architecture in place in a provider's operational infrastructure. Within this context, we examine the service architecture of two major global communication networks-the telephone network and the Internet and explore their weaknesses and strengths. We discuss the realization of an open programmable networking environment based on a new service architecture for advanced telecommunication services that overcomes the limitations of the existing networks. Our approach to network programmability stems from two angles-one conceptual, the other implementational. In the first, we attempt to develop a service model that is open and reflects the economic market structure of the future telecommunications service industry. Furthermore, we introduce an extended reference model for realizing the service marketplace and present it as a vehicle for creating multimedia services with QoS guarantees. In the second, we investigate the feasibility of engineering the reference model from an implementation standpoint. We describe a realization of the open programmable networking environment as a broadband kernel. Called xbind, the broadband kernel incorporates IP and CORBA technologies for signaling, management, and service creation, and ATM for transport. We also address some of the important QoS, performance, scalability, and implementation issues