Active networks provide on the fly user-configurability of network infrastructures. One
consequence is that more of the computation/communications continuum is available to the …

Active networks research has been ongoing now for around five years since the seminal
paper by Tennenhouse. A number of workshops and conferences have now sprung up, and …

Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the
network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with" capsules" …

Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the
network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with" capsules" …

As the cost of computing power decreases, it is worthwhile to consider the bene ts of adding
computing to all types of systems, either to enhance services or to trade o against other costs …

Interactions among telecommunications networks, computers, and other peripheral devices
have been of interest since the earliest distributed computing systems. A key architectural …

The main focus of active networking research so far has been at the infrastructure level,
facing the challenges of designing suitable node operating system structures and the study …

Active Networking is a new technology receiving significant attention from the research
community. To this point, however, it has not been examined from the perspective of …

Active networking offers a change in the usual network paradigm: from passive carrier of bits
to a more general computation engine. The implementation of such a change is likely to …

Active networks have been described as networks that allow routing elements to be
extensively programmed by the packets passing through them. This allows computation …