Active Networks

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Active Networks, IWAN'99, held in Berlin, Germany in June/July 1999.
The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 80 submissions. The book is divided in sections on networks architectures, platforms, active management and control, and security. All in all, this book provides a unique state-of-the-art account of architectural aspects, technologies, and prototype systems that will impact the way future networked businesses will be created and managed.

Inhalt

Architectures.- The Architecture of ALIEN.- Designing Interfaces for Open Programmable Routers.- RCANE: A Resource Controlled Framework for Active Network Services.- The Protean Programmable Network Architecture: Design and Initial Experience.- A Dynamic Pricing Framework to Support a Scalable, Usage-Based Charging Model for Packet-Switched Networks.- Active Information Networks and XML.- Policy Specification for Programmable Networks.- A Self-Configuring Data Caching Architecture Based on Active Networking Techniques.- Interference and Communications among Active Network Applications.- Platforms.- The Grasshopper Mobile Agent Platform Enabling Shortterm Active Broadband Intelligent Network Implementation.- LARA: A Prototype System for Supporting High Performance Active Networking.- A Programming Interface for Supporting IP Traffic Processing.- New Generation of Control Planes in Emerging Data Networks.- An Active Networks Overlay Network (ANON).- Autonomy and Decentralization in Active Networks: A Case Study for Mobile Agents.- Towards Active Hardware.- The Impact of Active Networks on Established Network Operators.- Active Management and Control.- Using Active Processes as the Basis for an Integrated Distributed Network Management Architecture.- ANMAC: An Architectural Framework for Network Management and Control Using Active Networks.- An Active Network Approach to Efficient Network Management.- Virtual Networks for Customizable Traffic Treatments.- Flexible Network Management Using Active Network Framework.- Managing Spawned Virtual Networks.- Active Organisations for Routing.- A Dynamic Interdomain Communication Path Setup in Active Network.- Active Network Challenges to TMN.- Survivability of Active Networking Services.- Security.- A Secure Plan.- Control on Demand.- Agent Based Security for the Active Network Infrastructure.