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CW 356
Frank Matthijs, Nico Janssens, Pierre Verbaeten
Automatic service composition: a case for active networks usability
Abstract
In this paper, we focus on application programmers who want to use and customize active network services. We make their job easier by simplifying the active network programming model. To this end, we decouple applications from the specific underlying active network technology, and we introduce a subsystem that automatically generates a description of a custom active networks service. The custom service description is generated from high-level application preferences, and it is automatically inserted into the applications data flow. We illustrate the system using DiANE, our active networks environment. We give concrete examples based on an active networks reliability service, showing how the reliability service is automatically customized for various types of applications.
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