Balancing configurability and efficiency in network support tools

ABSTRACT

New applications require dynamic configuration capability. A protocol kernel is a middleware application that glues a user defined set of protocols, allowing them to cooperate. One difficult in building protocol kernels is to balance the flexibility of adding and removing protocols with the efficiency of the mechanisms that support them. The paper presents an novel attempt to balance these requirements, extending recent results in this area. The proposed system, called Apia has the capability of dynamically select the protocols to be used, on a per message basis while allowing run-time reconfiguration of protocol stacks.

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Index Terms

• Networks

  • Network protocols