International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
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Volume 41 - Issue 6 |
Published: March 2012 |
Authors: Rakesh Kumar Singh |
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Rakesh Kumar Singh . Network Awareness in Communication Path for Efficient Support to Network Services. International Journal of Computer Applications. 41, 6 (March 2012), 23-28. DOI=10.5120/5545-7613
@article{ 10.5120/5545-7613, author = { Rakesh Kumar Singh }, title = { Network Awareness in Communication Path for Efficient Support to Network Services }, journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications }, year = { 2012 }, volume = { 41 }, number = { 6 }, pages = { 23-28 }, doi = { 10.5120/5545-7613 }, publisher = { Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA } }
%0 Journal Article %D 2012 %A Rakesh Kumar Singh %T Network Awareness in Communication Path for Efficient Support to Network Services%T %J International Journal of Computer Applications %V 41 %N 6 %P 23-28 %R 10.5120/5545-7613 %I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
A promising approach to access efficient network services in dynamic network environment is to provide network awareness in communication paths. Network services across a wide area network still remains a challenging task and the difficulty mainly comes from the heterogeneous and constantly changing network environment, which usually causes undesirable user experience for network-oblivious applications. A promising approach to address this is to provide network awareness in communication paths. Many challenging problems remain, in particular: how to automatically create effective network paths whose performance is optimized for encountered network conditions; how to dynamically reconfigure such paths when network conditions change; and how to manage and distribute network resources among different paths and between different network regions. This paper describes solutions for these problems, built into a programmable network infrastructure called Switching Network Services (SNS). The SNS infrastructure provides applications with network-aware communication paths that are automatically created and dynamically modified.