Resources Management in Active Networks

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2003-01-11
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Inanactivenetwork,userscaninsertcustomizedactivecodesintoactivenodestoexecute.Thusitneedsmoreresourcesthanthoserequiredbyconventionalnetworks,andtheseresourcesmustbeeffectivelymonitoredandmanaged.ManagementpoliciesinexistingOSsaretoocomplicatedtoapplytosimpleactivepackets.Inthispaper,wepresentnewresourcesmanagementpoliciesthataremainlyadopedtomanageCPU,storageandtransmissionbandwidth.Namely,weuseSPFalgorithmtoscheduleandprocessactivepackets,andimportanintervalqueuemethodtoallocatetransmissionbandwidth,andusefeedbackmechanismtocontrolcongestion.Atthesametime,wedesignsomeexperimentsonprototypesystemswithandwithoutresourcesmanagementpoliciesrespectively.Theexperimentsresultsshowthatmanagementpoliciespresentedbyuscaneffectivelymanageresourcesinactivenodesandcanimprovetheperformanceofactivenetworks.