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Transferring active networking technology from the research arena to everyday deployment on desktop and edge router nodes, requires a NodeOS design that simultaneously meets three goals: (1) be embedded within a wide-spread, open source operating system; (2) allow non-active applications and regular operating system operation to proceed in a regular manner, unhindered by the active networking component; (3) offer performance competitive with that of networking stacks of general purpose operating systems. Previous NodeOS systems, Bowman, Janos, AMP and Scout, only partially addressed these goals. Our contribution lies in the design and implementation of such a system, a NodeOS within the Linux kernel, and the demonstration of competitive performance for medium and larger packet sizes. We also illustrate how such a design easily renders to the deployment of other networking architectures, such as peer-to-peer networks and extensible routers.
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Shalaby, N., Gottlieb, Y., Wawrzoniak, M., Peterson, L. (2002). Snow on Silk: A NodeOS in the Linux Kernel. In: Sterbenz, J., Takada, O., Tschudin, C., Plattner, B. (eds) Active Networks. IWAN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2546. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36199-5_1
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