Active Network Service Management Based on Meta-level Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Alex Villzsón;Jarle Hulaas

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st OOPSLA Workshop on Reflection and Software Engineering: Reflection and Software Engineering, Papers from OORaSE 1999
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to show the benefits of using reflective techniques and meta-programming in the context of active networks, i.e. networks where packets may contain code which programs the network's behavior. By having separate base-levels and meta-levels it is possible to increase the manageability of systems constructed with mobile code, since we may intercept and influence from the meta-level the activity taking place in the base-level. We focus here on resource management of services deployed over an active network and propose to this end an architecture as well as two alternative prototype implementations.