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Smart packets: applying active networks to network management

Editor: Larry L. Peterson Authors:

Beverly Schwartz,

Alden W. Jackson,

W. Timothy Strayer,

R. Dennis Rockwell,

Craig PartridgeAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 18, Issue 1

Pages 67 - 88

https://doi.org/10.1145/332799.332893

Published: 01 February 2000 Publication History

Abstract

This article introduces Smart Packets and describes the smart Packets architecture, the packet formats, the language and its design goals, and security considerations. Smart Packets is an Active Networks project focusing on applying active networks technology to network management and monitoring. Messages in active networks are programs that are executed at nodes on the path to one or more target hosts. Smart Packets programs are written in a tightly encoded, safe language specifically designed to support network management and avoid dangerous constructs and accesses. Smart Packets improves the management of large complex networks by (1) moving management decision points closer to the node being managed, (2) targeting specific aspects of the node for information rather than exhaustive collection via polling, and (3) abstracting the management concepts to language constructs, allowing nimble network control.

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Index Terms

Smart packets: applying active networks to network management
1. Networks
  1. Network architectures
  2. Network services
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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