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

All distributed computing systems face the architectural question of the location (and nature)
of programmability in the telecommunications networks, computers, and other peripheral …

This is an overview of work on the SwitchWare active network project, which began two
years ago based on ideas about how to improve the flexibility of networks by making the …

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 …

This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th International Working Conference on Active
and Programmable Networks (IWAN 2005) that was held during November 21–23, 2005, in …

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 …

While there has already been significant research in support of openness and
programmability in networks, this paper argues that there remains a need for generic …

After a long period when networking research seemed to be focused mainly on making the
existing Internet work better, interest in" clean slate" approaches to network architecture …

Network programmability has metamorphosed over the past twenty years from the
controversial research vision of active networks, through PlanetLab, to the juggernaut of …

In this paper we present a programmable networking model that provides a common
framework for understanding the state-of-the-art in programmable networks. A number of …