Reflections: Performance
• Performance and Onion Peeling:
– Encapsulation does not stop at  TCP layer it continues upward…
[IP[TCP[TS[SEQ[PIC[SLICE[MB]]]]]]]
– Active network have to worry about performance of access.
– To get access to one field-- generally we have to access.
somewhere up to 5-10 other fields! Major performance drainage.
– Current protocols = logic + field placement
– Proposal = Separate logical definition from  locution in packet.
– Optimum locution based on access dependency of the capsules.