Performance Aspects of Active Network Applications - For Deployment of Active Network Technology -

For deployment of active network technology, active network applications play an important role. They should show good performance to users even under the condition that a small number of routers are equipped with active network technology. From performance aspects, crossing point of performance of active network application and end-to-end approach is very important. An active network application having a crossing point with a small number of active routers, will be a candidate of applications accelerating deployment of active network technology. In the paper, we first discuss about the following two important performance issues, “how many active routers bring good performance?” and “what is a good location of active routers?” We pick up two examples of active network applications, request routing in CDNs and reliable multicast, and show some interesting performance evaluation results from the viewpoint of these two issues. And we discuss about deployment issues by using these performance evaluation results.