MAY 00/ S-33
KHAN/KSU
Text Box: MEDIANET Networking and Media Communications Research Laboratory
MEDIANET
 Networking and Media Communications Research Laboratory
Top Down Reflection
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•Active network feels like very crude bare-bone architectures.
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•Powerful yet simple construction formalism is critically required to encourage usability of the architecture and reusability of the efforts spent to develop middleware on them.
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•Some of our organized thoughts hinting solutions:
–Language to express ‘deployment constraints’.
–Language to express ‘resource requirements’.
–Language to express ‘bounds of adaptation’.
–“Virtual instrument”
–Definitely I am out of time by now! Pl. see our publications.
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•Papers are available at http://medianet.kent.edu/