NETKIT
Project Dates
October 2002 to September 2005
Project Description
The NETKIT project is exploring an approach to programmable networking that is inspired by the way in which middleware technology has revolutionised the (related) field of distributed applications. We believe this to be a highly promising and exciting approach that can leverage current research on specific programmable networking techniques and make these techniques significantly easier to deploy, integrate, extend and manage. In more detail, we are developing a generic, language-independent, component-based toolkit for programmable networking systems. This is building on our existing OpenCOM/ OpenORB component/ middleware technology, and is addressing all levels of programmable networking in an integrated manner from in-band packet handling on routers to high level signaling protocols. Our aim is to encompass all current programmable networking paradigms (e.g. open signaling, active networking, and application-level active networking approaches), and to support, in a uniform manner, the configuration, reconfiguration and runtime management of programmable network systems at all system levels.
Selected Publications
- Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, David Hutchison, Ackbar Joolia, Kevin Lee, Jo Ueyama, Antonio Gomes, Yimin Ye, "NETKIT: A Software Component-Based Approach to Programmable Networking" , appeared in Computer Communication Review, a publication of ACM SIGCOMM, Volume 33, Number 5, October 2003. ISSN # 0146-4833 pdf.
- Jo Ueyama, Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Antonio T. Gomes, Ackbar Joolia, Kevin Lee, "A Globally-Applied Component Framework for Programmable Routers", Fifth International Working Conference on Active Networks IWAN 2003, 10 - 12 December 2003, Kyoto, Japan. pdf.
- J. Ueyama, S. Schmid, G. Coulson, S. Blair, A.T. Gomes, A. Joolia, and K. Lee, "A Re-configurable Component-based Model for Programmable Networks", Fourth International Workshop on Distributed Auto-adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems (DARES 2004), in conjunction with ICDCS2004, Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004. pdf.
Project Web Site
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~leek/netkit/index.html
Investigators
- Geoff Coulson
- Gordon Blair
- Jo Ueyama
- Kevin Lee
- Ackbar Joolia
Principal Contact
Geoff Coulson (
Email:geoff - add @comp.lancs.ac.uk)