RENDEZVOUS: Self-Organizing Services in an Active Network

摘要

We propose to explore a rendezvous model that has three characteristics: self-organization, heterogeneity, and administrator for friendliness. Not only do we believe that active network techniques have much to offer the overlay, proxy and interposition models that are prevalent in the Internet, but for the most part previous active networks research has not explored models with these characteristics. Our approach builds on our earlier experience with active networks, and specifically the ANTS active network toolkit. We model the network as an Internet-like arrangement of IP routers, some of which are co-located with active nodes that support additional computation in the form of a well-known runtime. We assume this to be ANTS, although our strategies will be applicable to other runtimes too.