An infrastructure for application level active networking
Abstract This paper describes an application level active networking (ALAN) infrastructure that we have developed. An implementation has been released called “funnelWeb”. This paper discusses the motivation for such a system, its architecture and implementation. We describe enhancements that can be made to Web-based caching and content delivery. The infrastructure developed and deployed represents a feasible platform for active network and active service experimentation. We outline the directions of our current research into application level routing (ALR).