WAC 2004: Autonomic Communication pp 191-206 | Cite as

A Metabolic Approach to Protocol Resilience

  • Christian Tschudin
  • Lidia Yamamoto
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3457)

Abstract

The goal of this research is to create robust execution circuits for communication software which can distribute over a network and which continues to provide its service despite parts of the implementation being knocked out. Like packets that can be lost (which can be recovered by the appropriate protocols) we envisage an environment where parts of a protocol’s execution can be lost. The remaining implementation elements should continue to operate and be able to recover by themselves for restoring full services again. Based on a chemical execution model, we show a few initial examples of packet processing functions that are robust against the knock-out of any single instruction. These examples illustrate how the model can be applied to implement resilient communication protocols, to which we add regulatory signals that can be used to steer the protocols’ code basis.

Keywords

resilient communication software autonomic communication bio-inspired networking active networking Fraglets 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Christian Tschudin
    • 1
  • Lidia Yamamoto
    • 2
  1. 1.Computer Science DepartmentUniversity of BaselBaselSwitzerland
  2. 2.Sophia Antipolis LaboratoryHitachi EuropeValbonneFrance

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