SIGCOMM '93 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Efficient software-based fault isolation
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Towards an active network architecture
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
The design and implementation of a certifying compiler
PLDI '98 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1998 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Service introduction in an active network
Service introduction in an active network
Expressing meaningful processing requirements among heterogeneous nodes in an active network
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Software and performance
Collection of network information in active networks
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Component Selection for Heterogeneous Active Networking
IWAN '01 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 Third International Working Conference on Active Networks
Programmable Resource Discovery Using Peer-to-Peer Networks
IWAN '02 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference on Active Networks
Active Networks for 4G Mobile Communication: Motivation, Architecture, and Application Scenarios
IWAN '02 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference on Active Networks
Distributed Computations by Active Network Calls
IWAN '00 Proceedings of the Second International Working Conference on Active Networks
Edge-Cut Bounds on Network Coding Rates
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Locating resources in a programmable networking environment
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Active networks
Future active Ip networks security architecture
Computer Communications
Model checking active networks with SPIN
Computer Communications
Integration of Reliability and Performance Analyses for Active Network Services
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Harnessing self-modifying code for resilient software
WRAC'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Radical Agent Concepts: innovative Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems
VIOLIN: virtual internetworking on overlay infrastructure
ISPA'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
Service oriented networks – dynamic distributed qos routing framework
ICOIN'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Information Networking: advances in Data Communications and Wireless Networks
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How well distributed computing systems perform depends a great deal on the network services used to move information among their machines. Yet despite this close correspondence, network services have evolved much more slowly than any other part of the distributed system environment. It's not that the networking community lacks innovative ideas: Internet Protocol version 6, Mobile IP, IP Multicast, and Integrated/ Differentiated Services aim to support multimedia applications more effectively and to accommodate more hosts, many of them mobile. Unfortunately, progress in implementing these solutions lags far behind the identified need. The main problem is the way network protocols must change. First, network protocols are the main vehicle for achieving interoperability, so any candidate internetworking protocol has to become a standard. This means possibly years between the time someone identifies a need and the time everyone agrees on how to address it. Once the new protocol has been accepted, more delays occur because it has to be deployed manually and in a way that is compatible with the existing protocols. ANTS, a new approach to deploying network services, bases interoperability on a programmable network model, not on individual networking protocols. The promise is automatic protocol upgrades, which can hasten progress toward a more responsive Internet.