Macroprocessors and Techniques for Portable Software
Macroprocessors and Techniques for Portable Software
The IEEE P1520 standards initiative for programmable network interfaces
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The SwitchWare active network architecture
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Towards policy-supported adaptable service systems
EUNICE'07 Proceedings of the 13th open European summer school and IFIP TC6.6 conference on Dependable and adaptable networks and services
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This paper proposes a method, called the policy-extension-by-policy method, for quickly and dynamically adding policyclasses with new functionality to policy servers and agents. In this method, users can add a new policy class to the policyserver by using policy-definition (PD) policies, and they can define a method to translate a policy of the new class and to sendto network nodes of different vendors through various types of device interfaces, such as CLI, MIBs, PIBs, APIs or hardwaretables, by using policy-embedding (PE) policies. A PE policy also enables translating a policy of an existing class andsending the result to a new type of network node. PE policies contain command templates and methods for filling thetemplates. A program interpreter is embedded in policy agents to make flexible policy-to-configuration translation possible. Aprototype system and example policies, i.e., access control, Diffserv, and VPN policies, were developed.