Abstract

This paper describes an operating system (OS) interface for active routers. This interface allows code loaded into active routers to access the router's memory, communication, and computational resources on behalf of different packet flows. In addition to motivating and describing the interface, the paper also reports our experiences implementing the interface in three different OS environments: Scout, the OSKit, and the esokernel.

Date

2001

Authors

Larry Peterson, Yitzchak Gottlieb, Mike Hibler, Patrick Tullmann, Jay Lepreau, Stephen Schwab, Hrishikesh Dandekar, Andrew Purtell, John Hartman

Journal

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volume

19

Issue

3

Pages

473-487

Publisher

IEEE