Active Networks

Welcome to the Active Networks home page. Active Networks is a DARPA funded program. This page announces upcoming events and related research efforts in Active Networks. The DARPA ITO page on Active Networks maintains a list of all organizations involved in Active Networks research.

What is an active network?

Announcements

• Call for paper: IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Active and Programmable Networks.
• Active networks in the news -- InfoWorld Electric, April 25, 1997.
• The active-nets@snap.org mailing list should be working now. The mailing list is for PIs and other interested parties only. Please contact Hilarie Orman at ho@earth.hpc.org if you wish to be included in the mailing list.

Active Networks Research Sites

• Active Networks at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Liquid Software: A New Paradigm for Networked Systems at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
• SwitchWare at University of Pennsylvania and Bell Communications Research.
• Dynamic Integrated Resource Management (DIRM) project at BBN.
• Smart Packets at BBN.

Related DARPA Research Projects

• Secure Realtime Process Groups in Horus: Cornell's Ensemble System.
• Resource Management for Application-Aware Networks at Carnegie Mellon University.
• NetScript at Columbia University.
• The Fluke kernel and OS toolkit at University of Utah.
• CANEs: Composable Active Networks Elements at Georgia Tech.

Conferences, Workshops, and Publications

• Proceedings to the Active Nets June '97 Workshop , Philadelphia, PA, June 19-20, 1997.
• September '96 Workshop on Active Networks at Lawrence, Kensas.
• DARPA Active Nets and Networking PI Meeting, March 5-7, 1997.
• A Survey of Active Network Research , IEEE Communications, January 1997.
• Other active nets related workshops and conferences.

Other Related Pages

• Active and High Confidence Networks, BAA-9704 from DARPA.