RENDEZVOUS: Self-Organizing Services in an Active Network

Abstract

We propose to explore a rendezvous model that has three characteristics: self-organization, heterogeneity, and administrator for friendliness. Not only do we believe that active network techniques have much to offer the overlay, proxy and interposition models that are prevalent in the Internet, but for the most part previous active networks research has not explored models with these characteristics. Our approach builds on our earlier experience with active networks, and specifically the ANTS active network toolkit. We model the network as an Internet-like arrangement of IP routers, some of which are co-located with active nodes that support additional computation in the form of a well-known runtime. We assume this to be ANTS, although our strategies will be applicable to other runtimes too.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA421754

Entities

People

  • David J. Wetherall
  • Thomas E. Anderson

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Computations
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Engineering
  • Hash Tables
  • Infrastructure
  • Internet
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Rendezvous
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Virtual Machines

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Networking
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.