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A Framework for Complex Composition of Netcentric Systems

Advisor: Dr. Javed I. Khan
Department of Computer Science
Kent State University
December 2004

Abstract:

The first generation of active networking research has demonstrated very simple programmable systems, where simple code modules can be executed in network routers and endpoints. However, complex netcentric systems require much more sophisticated design and composition formalism of active network codes. This dissertation presents a netcentric active service composition formalism which particularly focuses on code usability by polymorphism and inheritance. It demonstrates a novel active programming construct called made-to-order channels, which allows a collection of active code modules composed within such a construct to be recursively used within higher order instance of similar construct- thus enabling code reusability for active systems through a socket like interface. The construct allows active services to be incrementally layered to create versatile yet custom communication transports. The power of the formalism has been demonstrated via implementing a set of novel network transport services such for concurrent communication channel, and self-organizing-video-transcoding channel, et cetera. This dissertation has developed the formalism, demonstrated an active network platform for deployment and construction of such complex channels, and has evaluated the performance of the channel systems. The result has implication into other emerging paradigms of programmable netcentric systems such as web services, grid and autonomic computing.

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Seung S. Yang and Javed I. Khan, “Information Stream Control for Flow Centric Computing,” International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, July 2005
Seung S. Yang and Javed I. Khan, “Dynamic Service Construction for Network Centric Internet Computing Systems,” Southeast Decision Science Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, Feb 2005
Seung S. Yang and Javed I. Khan, “Recursive Channel Construction for Network Centric Computing Systems,” IWAN, Lawrence, Kansas, October 2004
Seung S. Yang and Javed I. Khan, “Recursive Channel Construction for Network Centric Internet Computing Systems,” US-Korea Conference, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, August 2004
Seung S. Yang and Javed I. Khan, “Open Standard based Visualization of Complex Internet Computing Systems,” International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging, and Visualization, Penang, Malaysia, July 2004
Seung S. Yang and Javed I. Khan, “Open Standard based Visualization of Complex Internet Computing Systems,” Workshop on Interactive Visualization and Interaction Technologies, Krakow, Poland, June 2004
Javed I. Khan and Seung S. Yang, “Delay and Jitter Minimization in High Performance Internet Computing,” International Conference on High Performance Computing, Hyderabad, India, December 2003
Seung S. Yang and Javed I. Khan, “Delay and Jitter Minimization in Active Diffusion Computing,” IEEE International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, pp. 292-300, Orlando, Florida, January 2003
Javed I. Khan, Patrick Mail, and Seung S. Yang, “Flow Assignment in A Self-Organizing Video Stream that Auto Morphs Itself while in Transit via a Quasi-Active Network,” 5th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networking and Multimedia Communications, HSNMC2002, Jeju, Korea, July 2002
Javed I. Khan, Seung S. Yang, et al., “Resource Adaptive Netcentric System on Active Network: Self-Organizing Video Stream that Auto Morphs Itself while in Transit via a Quasi-Active Network,” IEEE Proceedings of the DARPA Active Network Conference and Exposition, pp. 427-443, San Jose, California, May 2002
Javed I. Khan and Seung S. Yang, “A Framework for Building Complex Netcentric Systems on Active Network,” IEEE Proceedings of the DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition, pp. 409-426, San Jose, California, May 2002
Javed I. Khan, Seung S. Yang, et al, “Resource Adaptive Netcentric System: A case Study with SONET – a Self-Organizing Network Embedded Transcoder,” ACM Multi-Media 2001, pp. 617-620, Ottawa, Canada, October 2001
Javed I. Khan, Seung S. Yang, “Resource Adaptive Nomadic Transcoding on Active Network,” International Conference of Applied Informatics, AI2001, Insbruck, Austria, February 2001
Javed I. Khan and Seung S. Yang, “Made-To-Order Custom Channels for Netcentric Applications Over the Active Network,” Proceeding of International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IMSA 2000, pp. 22-26, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2000

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Dissertation Title:

A Framework for Complex Composition of Netcentric Systems