From protocol stack to protocol heap: role-based architecture

  • Authors:
  • Robert Braden;Ted Faber;Mark Handley

  • Affiliations:
  • USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA;USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA;International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Questioning whether layering is still an adequate foundation for networking architectures, this paper investigates non-layered approaches to the design and implementation of network protocols. The goals are greater flexibility and control with fewer feature interaction problems. The paper further proposes a specific non-layered paradigm called role-based architecture.