Design of a Flexible Open Platform for High Performance Active Networks (1999)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Dan99designof,
author = {Sumi Choi Dan and Dan Decasper and John Dehart and Ralph Keller and John Lockwood and Jonathan Turner and Tilman Wolf},
title = {Design of a Flexible Open Platform for High Performance Active Networks},
booktitle = {in Allerton Conference},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes an architecture for a high performance active router. The system is designed as an open research platform, with a range of configuration options and possibilities for extension in both the software and hardware dimensions. The system is built around a scalable switch fabric and includes a general-purpose processor subsystem at each port, enabling flexible packet processing and deployment of flow-specific active plugins. Such a research platform is becoming an indispensable tool for effective systems research in networking and distributed systems. 1 Introduction In the eighties and early nineties, networking research has concentrated largely on how to improve network performance, by designing switches and routers that could handle large numbers of gigabit rate links. This research has led to the development of systems capable of supporting 2.4 Gb/s links and system capacities in the 100 Gb/s range. Systems now being developed feature scalable multistage interconne...
