Download or read book Active and Programmable Networks for Adaptive Architectures and Services written by Syed Asad Hussain and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most conventional networks are passive, with only basic traffic monitoring, management, routing, and congestion control. At best, they can be called reactive. Deploying new functions and integrating new standards into these architectures is difficult due to the rigid embedding of software and hardware into the network components. Active and Program