The SwitchWare Project
Active Network Research at Penn and Bellcore
Active networks explore the idea of allowing routing elements
to be extensively programmed by the packets passing through them. This
allows computation previously possible only at endpoints to be carried
out within the network itself, thus enabling optimizations and extensions
of current protocols as well as the development of fundamentally new protocols.
Welcome to the SwitchWare home page, describing the Active Networks research
effort underway in the Penn Department
of Computer and Information Science and Bellcore
as well as pointers to related material.
Activities
People
Papers
More papers are available on each of the individual project sites
- The Price of Safety in An Active Network
D. Scott Alexander, Paul B.
Menage, Angelos D. Keromytis, William A. Arbaugh, Kostas
G. Anagnostakis, and Jonathan M. Smith. In Journal of
Communications and Networks (JCN), special issue on programmable
switches and routers, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 4 - 18, March 2001.
- Secure Quality of Service Handling (SQoSH)
D. Scott Alexander, William
A. Arbaugh, Angelos D. Keromytis, Steve Muir, and Jonathan M. Smith.
IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 106 - 112,
April 2000.
- Towards Practical Programmable
Packets
Jonathan T. Moore and Scott M. Nettles. Technical Report MS-CIS-00-12, University of Pennsylvania,
May 2000. Abstract.
- Safe and
Efficient Active Packets
Jonathan T. Moore. Technical Report MS-CIS-99-24, Department of
Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, October 1999.
Abstract.
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A Secure PLAN
Michael Hicks and Angelos D. Keromytis. Submitted to IWAN '99.
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Chunks in PLAN: Language Support for Programs as Packets
Jonathan T. Moore, Michael Hicks, and Scott Nettles. Submitted to IWAN '99.
- Security in Active
Networks
D. Scott Alexander, William A. Arbaugh, Angelos
D. Keromytis, and Jonathan M. Smith.
To appear in Secure Internet
Programming: Issues in Distributed and Mobile Object Systems,
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
State-of-the-Art series.
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The SwitchWare Active Network Implementation
D. Scott Alexander, Michael W. Hicks, Pankaj Kakkar, Angelos D. Keromytis,
Marianne Shaw, Jonathan T. Moore, Carl A. Gunter, Trevor Jim,
Scott M. Nettles, and Jonathan M. Smith.
The 1998 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML held in
conjunction with the International Conference on Functional Programming
(ICFP) '98.
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Safety and Security of Programmable Network Infrastructures
D. Scott Alexander, William A. Arbaugh, Angelos D. Keromytis, and
Jonathan M. Smith.
IEEE Communications Magazine, issue on Programmable Networks,
vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 84 - 92.
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PLANet:
An Active Internetwork
To appear in IEEE INFOCOM, New York, 1999.
Michael Hicks, Jonathan T. Moore, D. Scott Alexander, Carl A. Gunter,
and Scott M. Nettles.
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The Price of Safety in an
Active Network
D. Scott Alexander, Kostas G.
Anagnostakis, William A. Arbaugh, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Jonathan
M. Smith.
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The
SwitchWare Active Network Architecture
D. Scott Alexander, William A. Arbaugh, Michael W. Hicks, Pankaj Kakkar, Angelos D. Keromytis, Jonathan T. Moore, Carl A. Gunter, Scott M. Nettles, and Jonathan M. Smith.
IEEE Network Special Issue on Active and Controllable
Networks, vol. 12 no. 3, pp. 29 - 36.
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A Secure Active
Network Architecture: Realization in SwitchWare
D. Scott Alexander, William A. Arbaugh, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Jonathan
M. Smith.
IEEE Network Special Issue on Active and Controllable
Networks, vol. 12 no. 3, pp. 37 - 45.
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PLAN:
A Packet Language for Active Networks
Michael Hicks, Pankaj Kakkar, Jonathan T. Moore, Carl A. Gunter and
Scott Nettles.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) '98.BIBTEX
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SwitchWare:
Towards a 21st Century Network Infrastructure.
Jonathan Smith, David Farber, Carl A. Gunter, Scott Nettles, Mark Segal,
Walter D. Sincoskie, David Feldmeier, and Scott Alexander.
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Active
Bridging
D. Scott Alexander, Marianne Shaw, Scott M. Nettles, and Jonathan M.
Smith
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM'97 Conference,
Cannes, France, September 1997.
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A Secure
and Reliable Bootstrap Architecture
William A. Arbaugh, David J. Farber, and Jonathan M. Smith.
IEEE Security and Privacy Conference, Oakland, California, May 1997.
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Automated
Recovery in a Secure Bootstrap Process
William A. Arbaugh, Angelos D. Keromytis, David J. Farber, and Jonathan
M. Smith.
Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed
System Security (SNDSS),pp. 155 - 167, San Diego, March 11-13, 1998.
Talks
Related Sites
Please send inquiries, comments, and corrections to sware-maint@www.cis.upenn.edu.
