Network pointers

Tschudin, Christian; Gold, Richard H.

doi:10.1145/774763.774766

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“…Both, propose interfaces that can be useful as an alternative to the Compartment interface we consider in this paper, for requesting and associating the end user to cloud services (as GSi objects). The power of indirection has been also exploited, more intuitively programmatically, in the network pointers model (Tschudin and Gold, 2002), and has been adopted in the ANA architecture (Bouabene et al, 2010). Although, this interface is not object oriented and neither as expressive as GSi, the network pointers model achieves functional polymorphism and dynamic service composition at a very low level.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Generic Service Interface for Cloud Networks

Sifalakis

Tschudin

Martin

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science

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Abstract:Two major challenges for enabling the vision of cloud computing regard (a) the generic and multi-purpose access to (virtualised) resources, and (b) the flexible, dynamic, and on-demand composition of services vertically from the physical link level, all the way "up" to the application level. Both aspects require a respective flexibility and expressibility from the interfaces in-place, which is missing from the current static socket (and other) interfaces below the application level. In this position paper, we propose, explain and exemplify an alternative generic service interface (GSi) that borrows from object oriented design to enable properties such as polymorphic access, generic service composition, introspection and dynamic reconfigurability, of in-network resources; opening in this way the path for flexible creation of service clouds.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Generic Service Interface for Cloud Networks

Sifalakis

Tschudin

Martin

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science

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“…The concept of 'network pointers' proposed for SelNet [21] is another related approach. Instead of using standard network addresses within data packets, SelNet introduces so called selectors, which allow the network pointers (packet handlers) to change the processing semantics of packets as they traverse the network.…”

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confidence: 99%

TurfNet: An Architecture for Dynamically Composable Networks

Schmid¹,

Eggert²,

Brunner³

et al. 2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The Internet architecture is based on design principles such as endto-end addressing and global routeability. It suits relatively static, well-managed and flat network hierarchies. Recent years have shown, however, that the Internet is evolving beyond what the current architecture can support. The Internet architecture struggles to support increasingly conflicting requirements from groups with competing interests, such as network, content and application service providers, or end-users of fixed, mobile and ad hoc access networks. This paper describes a new internetworking architecture, called TurfNet. It provides autonomy for individual network domains, or Turfs, through a novel interdomain communication mechanism that does not require global network addressing or a common network protocol. By minimizing inter-domain dependencies, TurfNet provides a high degree of independence, which in turn facilitates autonomic communications. Allowing network domains to fully operate in isolation maximizes the scope of autonomic management functions. To accomplish this, TurfNet integrates the emerging concept of dynamic network composition with other recent architectural concepts such as decoupling locators from identifiers and establishing end-to-end communication across heterogeneous domains.

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“…TRIAD similarly uses an alternate tag architecture, preferring DNS names to IP destination addresses; here again DataRouter option strings can be used to provide TRIAD-like service [10]. Similar multilayer forwarding in Network Pointers, and Catanet can be supported [7][23] [27].…”

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“…This concept is augmented to use pointers (Network Pointers) or heaps in newer proposals [5] [27]. DataRouter is a more general variant of the use of multiple addresses, although currently assuming a linear structure.…”

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DataRouter: A Network-Layer Service for Application-Layer Forwarding

Touch

Pingali

2004

Active Networks

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Abstract. DataRouter forwards network layer packets using application layer tags, without requiring per-hop termination of transport protocols and the consequent reimplementation of transport services in the application. DataRouter provides network delivery based on pattern matching and string replacement. It combines a byte string as a loose source route IP option tag and regular expression routing entries to provide a new network service. DataRouter tags have a variety of forms, including fixed-length with exact matches for distributed hash tables and variable-length with regular expression matches for URL redirection. Tagged IPv6 packets traverse non-DataRouter routers transparently. On a platform forwarding IPv4 packets at 310K packets/sec., an unoptimized FreeBSD IPv4 DataRouter forwards hash-match packets at up to 270K packets/sec. (87% of max.) and pattern-match packets 155K packets/sec. (50% of max.). DataRouter thus provides a viable, higher-performance alternative to application-layer implementation of forwarding, in a generic service more interoperable with existing network and transport protocols.

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Network pointers

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

A Generic Service Interface for Cloud Networks

A Generic Service Interface for Cloud Networks

TurfNet: An Architecture for Dynamically Composable Networks

DataRouter: A Network-Layer Service for Application-Layer Forwarding

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