The field of active networking has produced a wealth of work in the DARPA Active Nets and EU FAIN (Future Active IP Networks) programs, as well as a number of other independent research projects. The locus of emphasis has been on languages, execution environments, and node architecture.
activenets.org is online and will soon serve as a central index to active nets research projects, worldwide, as well as conference events.
This page is restricted to my personal involvement in Active Networks over the last 10 years.
Naoki Wakamiya,
Marcin Solarski, and
James P.G. Sterbenz,
editors
Active Networks: IFIP-TC6 5th International Working Conference,
IWAN 2003,
LNCS, Springer, Berlin, forthcoming.
James P.G. Sterbenz,
Osamu Takada,
Christian Tschudin, and
Bernhard Plattner,
editors,
Active Networks: IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference, IWAN 2002,
LNCS 2546, Springer, Berlin, 2002.
There are a number of obvious directions for future research emphasis, some of which have had very little work so far:
In late 2001 Doug Maughan held a workshop following the DARPA Active Nets PI meeting to discuss research directions for a potential follow-on program. The following white paper reflects collaborative brainstorming on the potential for mobile wireless active networking research.
Bernhard Plattner and
James P.G. Sterbenz,
“Mobile Wireless Active Networking:
Issues and Research Agenda”,
IEICE Workshop on Active Network Technology and Applications
(ANTA) 2002,
Tokyo, March 2002, pp. 71–74.
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James P.G. Sterbenz,
“Intelligence in Future Broadband Networks:
Challenges and Opportunities in High-Speed Active Networking”,
Proceedings of IEEE International Zürich Seminar on Broadband
Communications (IZS 2002),
Zürich, Feb. 2002, pp. 2-1–2-7.
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James P.G. Sterbenz and
Rajesh Krishnan,
“Multi-Modal Routing and Switch Node Architecture”,
DARPA / DOE / NASA / NIST / NLM / NSF Workshop on
New Visions for Large-Scale Networks: Research and Applications,
Vienna VA, 12-14 March 2001.
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Kenneth L. Calvert,
Samrat Bhattacharjee,
Ellen W. Zegura, and
James P.G. Sterbenz,
“Directions in Active Networks”,
IEEE Communications, vol.36 #10, Oct. 1998, pp. 72–78.
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James P.G. Sterbenz,
“Network Processors: Opportunity for
Open, Programmable, Extensible, Adaptive, Active Networks?&rdquo,
IEEE OpenSig 2002,
Lexington KY, Oct 2002.
James P.G. Sterbenz,
Alden W. Jackson, and Matthew N. Condell,
HyperActive Networking,
Active Networks Group draft (experimental),
1 April 2000
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Christoph Wirz,
Regina Rosales Hain,
Alden W. Jackson,
Bernhard Plattner and
James P.G. Sterbenz,
“Multicast Monitoring with SENCOMM”,
IFIP IWAN 2002 poster,
Zürich, December 2002.
Christoph Wirz,
James P.G. Sterbenz,
Matthias Bossardt, and
Bernhard Plattner,
Active Network Multicasting and Tree Monitoring with SENCOMM,
Diploma Thesis DA-2002.29, ETH Zürich,
BBN Technical Report 8358,
November 2002.
Alden W. Jackson,
James P.G. Sterbenz,
Matthew N. Condell, and Regina Rosales Hain,
“Active Monitoring and Control:
The SENCOMM Architecture and Implementation”,
Proceedings of the DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition
(DANCE) 2002,
San Francisco, June 2002, pp. 379-393.
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Alden W. Jackson,
James P.G. Sterbenz,
Matthew N. Condell, Regina Rosales Hain, and
Leon Poutievski,
Active Network Monitoring and Control: Architecture and Issues,
Oct. 2000.
Alden W. Jackson,
James P.G. Sterbenz,
Matthew N. Condell,
Joel Levin, and
David J. Waitzman,
SENCOMM Architecture,
Apr. 2000.
Alden Jackson,
James P.G. Sterbenz
(Co-Principal Investigators),
Matt Condell, Regina Rosales Hain, Joel Levin, David J. Waitzman,
Leon Poutievski,
Christoph Wirz
[ BBN SENCOMM
project page ] – includes software release and full documentation
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