Promile: a management architecture for programmable modular routers
Miguel Rio, Nicola Pezzi, Luca Zanolin, H. deMeer, W Emmerich, Cecilia Mascolo · 2001
In recent years the field of Active or Programmablenetworks has received much attention from the networkingcommunity. The goal is to achieve flexible programmability in routers and switches. This will be particularlyuseful in the context of differentiated services [1] wheredifferent functionalities may or may not be present.This document describes a novel active router architecture that provides policy management and it is completely updatable and configurable at run-time providing the possibility of changing the packet flow insidethe router without significant traffic disruption. Weuse XML to describe the behaviour of the router.