http://www.ana-project.org/web/ 2009-01-06T18:59:54+01:00 http://www.ana-project.org/web/ http://www.ana-project.org/web/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-10-02T10:11:05+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/publications/deliverables2006/start?rev=1222935065&do=diff Deliverables 2006 WorkPackage 1 D.1.1 State of the Art D.1.2 Requirements Document D.1.4 ANA Blueprint Document: This document integrates the following individual deliverables: * D.1.3 Information flow requirements * D.1.4 ANA Blueprint (due M12) * D.1.5 Autonomic functional blocks (due M12) * D.1.6 Information flow specifications (due M12) text/html 2008-10-02T10:10:33+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/publications/deliverables2007/start?rev=1222935033&do=diff * (updated) ANA Description of Work document Latest Deliverables WorkPackage 1 D.1.1 State of the art (unchanged since 2006) D.1.2 ANA requirements (unchanged since 2006) D.1.3 ANA Blueprint Update D.1.7 Prototype implementation of the information flow framework text/html 2008-10-02T10:09:46+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/publications/deliverables2008/start?rev=1222934986&do=diff WorkPackage 1 M36 D.1.9 ANA Blueprint Update M36 D.1.9b Description of the low‐level machinery of ANA M30 D.1.10 First public stable release of ANA Core software M36 D.1.11 Second public stable release of ANA Core software WorkPackage 2 M36 D.2.9 Design and implementation of an intra‐compartment routing scheme text/html 2008-09-23T20:02:58+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/partners/start?rev=1222192978&do=diff The following universities and research institutes collaborate in the ANA Project. Coordination Partner Institution ETH Zurich Communication Systems Group [Autonomic Networking] Project Partners Partner Institution University of Basel NEC Europe Ltd. Network Laboratories (NEC) University of Lancaster (ULanc) Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung (FOKUS) Université de Liége (ULg) Université Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Nat… text/html 2008-09-23T20:02:39+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/partners/description/start?rev=1222192959&do=diff ETH Zurich ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, at Zurich, Switzerland, forms a community of 18,000 people from 80 nations who study, do research or are employed there. About 360 professors in 15 departments teach mainly in the technical, mathematical and natural sciences areas and carry out research that is highly valued worldwide. ETH Zurich has the important task of maintaining and developing its top standing in the international competition among top universities. They ful… text/html 2008-09-11T19:09:38+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/partners/people/start?rev=1221152978&do=diff The ANA project is organized in 5 workpackages each lead by one partner. For the technical coordination, we also established Technical Coordination Committee where the key players are involved. Work Packages Project Coordination Martin May [Martin] Work Package 1 Christophe Jelger [Christophe] Work Package 2 Stefan Schmid [Stefan] Work Package 3 Guy Leduc [Guy] Work Package 4 David Hutchison [David] Technical Coordination Committee Martin May [Martin] Christophe Jelger … text/html 2008-09-11T19:08:50+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/about/0-objectives/start?rev=1221152930&do=diff Objectives of the ANA Project The Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA) project has two complementary objectives that iteratively provide feedback to each other: a scientific objective and a technological one. Scientific Objective To identify fundamental autonomic networking principles that enable networks to scale not only in size but also in functionality. The main premise of our work is that a functionally scaling network is a synonym for an evolving network which includes the various self-x… text/html 2008-09-11T19:06:53+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/about/1-motivation/start?rev=1221152813&do=diff Motivation The success of the existing Internet architecture is a testimony of the wise design decisions [1] of the early days of the Internet. Indeed, the closely specified protocol suite and the simple basic mechanisms paved the way of this success. However, for today’s and future challenges, this architecture may not suffice: With the continuous growth of the number of networking devices and their increased diversity in functionality, the role and the properties of the networking elements … text/html 2008-09-11T19:01:36+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/about/3-api/start?rev=1221152496&do=diff Network compartments are free to internally use whatever addressing, naming, routing, networking mechanisms, protocols, packet formats, etc., they want. The objective is to enable variability and evolution by not imposing any restriction on the internal network operation of compartments. However, to support all possible and unforeseen interactions, all compartments must support a generic “compartment API” which provides the “glue” that permits to build complex network stacks and packet p… text/html 2008-09-11T14:55:17+01:00 Martin May http://www.ana-project.org/web/about/2-core/start?rev=1221137717&do=diff The fundamental concept around which the architecture is built, is the information dispatch point (IDP). IDPs are inspired by the work on network pointers [9] and are also somehow similar to file descriptors and sockets in Unix systems. IDPs are typically bound to functional blocks (FB). Functional blocks are information processing units that implement data transmission functionality (for example sending and receiving of IP packets) or some additional functionality as for example traffic monitor…