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OORaSE 1999: Reflection and Software Engineering pp 99–116Cite as

Active Network Service Management Based on Meta-level Architectures

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The goal of this paper is to show the benefits of using reflective techniques and meta-programming in the context of active networks, i.e. networks where packets may contain code which programs the network’s behavior. By having separate base-levels and meta-levels it is possible to increase the manageability of systems constructed with mobile code, since we may intercept and influence from the meta-level the activity taking place in the base-level. We focus here on resource management of services deployed over an active network and propose to this end an architecture as well as two alternative prototype implementations.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy

    Walter Cazzola

  2. Universitàa di Genova - DISI, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146, Genova, Italy

    Walter Cazzola

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Robert J. Stroud

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Tisato

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Villazón, A., Hulaas, J. (2000). Active Network Service Management Based on Meta-level Architectures. In: Cazzola, W., Stroud, R.J., Tisato, F. (eds) Reflection and Software Engineering. OORaSE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1826. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45046-7_6

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