Fourth Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS'02)
A Practical Approach to Network-Based Processing
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
July 23-July 23
ISBN: 0-7695-1721-8
The usage of general-purpose processors externally attached to routers to virtually play the role of active co-processors seems a safe and cost-effective approach to add active network capabilities to existing routers. This paper reviews this router-assistant way of making active nodes, addresses the benefits and limitations of this technique, and describes a new platform based on it using an enhanced commercial router. The features new to this type of architecture are transparency, IPv4 and IPv6 support, and full control over layer 3 and above. A practical experience with two applications for path characterization and a transport gateway managing multi-QoS is described.
Citation:
D. Larrabeiti, M. Calderón, A. Azcorra, M. Urueña, "A Practical Approach to Network-Based Processing," amsw, pp.3, Fourth Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS'02), 2002