Internet factories: Creating application-specific networks on-demand

Internet factories: Creating application-specific networks on-demand

Strijkers, R.J.
Makkes, M.X.
de Laat, C.
Meijer, R.J.

2014

We introduce the concept of Internet factories. Internet factories structure the task of creating and managing application-specific overlay networks using infrastructure-as-a-service clouds. We describe the Internet factory architecture and report on a proof of concept with three examples that progressively illustrate its working. In one of these examples, we demonstrate the creation of a 163-node IPv6 network over 18 cloud locations around the world. Internet factories include the use of libraries that capture years of experience and knowledge in network and systems engineering. Consequently, Internet factories solve the problem of creating and managing on-demand application-specific overlay networks without exposing all their intricacies to the application developer. © 2014. American Geophysical Union.

Communication & Information
BIS - Business Information Services
TS - Technical Sciences
Infrastructures
Informatics
Information Society
Computer networks
Distributed computing
Network architecture
Network management
Programmable networks
Distributed parameter networks
Overlay networks
Application developers
Application-specific network
In networks
IPv6 networks
On demands
Proof of concept
Internet

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b7cff371-3400-4ac9-ac4e-2696e0e1f41b

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2014.01.009

507076

Computer Networks, 68, 187-198

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