A next generation internet state management framework
Xin Sunny Huang, Tilman Wolf · 2007
In the next generation Internet architecture, more functionality in the form of "services" and packet processing features will be placed inside the network rather than on end-systems. This trend will increase the amount of network state information maintained by the systems inside the network. We present a framework for structuring and managing network state information that can be used in the next generation Internet architecture.