Section: Scientific Foundations

Optimized Protocol implementations and networking equipments

Participants : Laurent Lefèvre, Paulo Gonçalves, Jean-Patrick Gelas, Olivier Glück, Fabienne Anhalt, Guilherme Koslovski.

The key enabling factor of new network services is programmability at every level; that is the ability for new software capabilities to self-configure themselves over the network. We explore the concept, "dynamic programming enablers" for dynamic service driven configuration of communication resources. Dynamic programming enablers apply to an executable service that is injected and activated into the network system elements to create the new functionality at runtime. The basic idea is to enable trusted parties (users, operators, and service providers) to activate management-specific service and network components into a specific platform. We study mechanisms and infrastructures required to support these components. We aim at providing new functionality to services using Internet facilities, addressing the self-management operations in differentiated and integrated services. The goal is the enhancement of the creation and the management (customization, delivery, execution and stop) of Internet services.