Paper Info
Title
Active Routers in Action: Evaluation of the LARA++ Active Router Architecture in a Real-Life Network
Abstract
The paper reports on lessons learned from developing, deploying and operating LARA++ based active routers (1) along with a number of active services used daily in a real-life network environment. We evaluate how LARA++, which claims to be a truly generic and flexible active router architecture, performs when deployed in an operational network. The architecture is assessed whilst providing a range of diverse active services from well-known network services like NAT and firewalls to novel types of services such as Mobile IPv6 handoff optimisation. A particular challenge we consider is the transparent and concurrent introduction of new services by different end users and network administrators. Besides a qualitative evaluation of the LARA++ architecture, the paper provides a number of quantitative results that show the performance of LARA++ whilst providing the different services. The results indicate that LARA++ not only supports highly generic programmability by independent users, but also provides sufficient performance for today's edge networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-24715-9_19
IWAN
Field
DocType
Volume
Internet Protocol,Mobile IP,Architecture,End user,Computer science,Network architecture,Router,Network management,Handover,Distributed computing
Conference
2982
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.80
References 
Authors
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
T. Chart1192.37
Stefan Schmid255971.98
Manolis Sifalakis39810.20
Andrew C. Scott420.80