Active networks (AN) are a rapid evolving area of research and in parallel an area of great industry interest. However, for this technology to make the step out of the labs and penetrate the market, the security problems have to be tackled e€ectively. This paper demonstrates why and how agent technology research, can and should be applied to active networks, in order to ful®ll the new security ...

Small packets constitute a large fraction of packets in the Internet Gathercast is a network layer ser vice that combines small packets going to the same destination into a bigger packet Gathercast reduces the number of packets in the network and also saves computations at routers Due to its dynamic and pro grammable property active network is ideally suited to support gathercast In this paper ...

A connection between permutations that avoid 4231 and a certain queueing discipline is established. It is proved that a more restrictive queueing discipline corresponds to avoiding both 4231 and 42513, and enumeration results for such permutations are given.

Active Networking provides a framework in which executable code within data packets can execute upon intermediate network nodes. Active Virtual Network Management Prediction (AVNMP) provides a network prediction service that utilizes the capability of Active Networks to easily inject fine-grained models into the communication network to enhance network performance. The models injected into the ...

Active Networks allow users to \program" the network infrastructure, by injecting information that describes or controls a distributed algorithm to be executed for the user by the network infrastructure. The nature of the services that can be implemented with such a facility is determined by the programming interface to the active network, i.e. the set of abstractions it exposes to users. The c...