VAIN: VIRTUAL ACTIVE IP NODE FOR COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

The present document describes the VAIN architecture (Virtual Active IP Node/Network), which enables users to deploy new network services based on virtual active networks, and how it solves the challenge of segmenting the incoming traffic that crosses nodes towards the services, conserving the original objective of independence of the protocol. Our solution is based on using network expressions that use all the semantic contained in each incoming packet, which does not need to know the inner structure of the protocols. To achieve this objective we have considered the following goals: first, a three layer conceptualization; second, a transparent implementation and its integration with existing infrastructures; and third, a strategy of network traffic distribution based in all the information within the input packets, which is named "expressions based distribution". VAIN is immediately over the link layer, being able to be extended to any other similar net protocol, and it is independent of upper protocols existing or not at the present time. Our architecture also presents a polymorphic character since it allows changing its behavior in a transparent way and virtually emulating other architectures without affecting to its functionality.