The Recursive Network Architecture (RNA) explores the relationship of layering to protocol and network architecture. RNA examines the implications of using a single, tunable protocol for different layers of the protocol stack, reusing basic protocol operations across different protocol layers to avoid reimplementation. The primary goal of this work is to encourage cleaner cross-layer interaction and to support dynamic service composition, and to gain an understanding of how layering affects architecture.
Touch, “Recursion and the Transport Tussle”, PfLDNet 2010, Lancaster, PA, Nov. 2010.
Touch, I. Baldine, R. Dutta., G. Finn, B. Ford, S. Jordan, D. Massey, A. Matta., C. Papadopoulos, P. Reiher, G. Rouskas, “A Dynamic Recursive Unified Internet Design (DRUID)”. Computer Networks, (to appear 2011). A local copy is available here.
Van Meter, J. Touch, C. Horsman, “Recursive Quantum Repeater Networks,” Progress in Informatics, (to appear 2011).
Touch, V. Pingali, “The RNA Metaprotocol,” Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Comm. (ICCCN), Aug. 2008.
Touch, “From Shannon to Recursive Nets: Multihop/Multiparty Influences on Network Architecture,” IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW), Lenox, MA, Oct. 2009.
Touch, “Next Steps in Enabling A Virtual Internet,” IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW), Lenox, MA, Oct. 2009.
Touch, “Recursive Network Architecture,” IEEE Workshop on Computer Communications (CCW), Pittsburgh PA, Feb. 2007.
Wang, J. Touch, J. Sylvester, “Adding Selection into Protocol Stacks – Communication with Choices,” (ext. abstract, poster), Proc. IEEE ICNP Student Poster Session, Nov. 2006.
Touch, Y. Wang, V. Pingali, “A Recursive Network Architecture,” ISI Technical Report ISI-TR-2006-626, Oct. 2006.
Recursive Networking,” invited presentation to the Asia Future Internet (AsiaFI) Summer School, Yokohama, Japan, August 2010.
“Recursion in Networking,” invited keynote presentation at the Conference on Future Internet Technologies, Seoul, S. Korea, June 2010.
“The Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Networks,” invited keynote presentation at IEEE FutureNet II Workshop at Globecom, Honolulu, Dec. 2009.
“The Science of Networking,” session chair at IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW), Lenox, MA, Oct. 2009.
US Future Internet Research,” invited presentation to the ISOC Future Internet Research meeting, IETF Stockholm, July 2009.
Recursive Network Architecture,” invited presentation to the Future Internet Summer School, Univ. Bremen, July 2009.
“Recursive Network Architecture” invited presentation in the plenary panel on “Clean Slate Architectures” at Infocom, April 2009, Rio de Janiero.
“Recursive Network Architecture” at Network Achitecture, Ascona, Switzerland, March 2009.
Day, J., Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals, Prentice Hall, 2008.
The current release is v1.0 (Jan 2009 and its Readme and Changes) and the previous release is v0.9 (July 2008, and its Readme). It is distributed as a patch to Click Modular Router software.
This release has been tested only on FreeBSD (6.2) though it should work with minor modification on other FreeBSD versions and UNIX platforms such as Linux that Click supports.
Download the click source (version 1.6.0) and apply the metaprotocol patch. Click source may be downloaded from Click website.
Multiple configuration files may have to be run to simulate multiple stacks.
This work was partly supported by the NSF (Grant No. CNS-0626788) project. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.