Adaptive Resource Management in Active Network Nodes

• Venue: ISCC '03 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications
• Year: 2003

Resource management in active network nodes ischallenging because more types and amount of resourcesare needed compared with traditional networks, and theconsumption of different types of resources is not equallybalanced. Hence, it is possible and important to considerthe relationship between different types of resourcesneeded by an application. Adaptation of applications'resource usages in network nodes enables the applicationsto react promptly to the resource status in the networknodes and therefore offers a better performance guaranteeand more flexibility to the applications. This paper studiesthe resource management in active network nodesconsidering the relationship among different types ofresources. The resource vectors (RVs) are introduced todescribe the resource requirements of applications andtheir adaptation capabilities. And an adaptive resourcemanagement mechanism based on RV is proposed and theimplementation of it in an active node is given.