主动网应用及发展状况分析

Analysis of Applications and Developing Status of Active Networks

介绍了主动网的体系结构，并对几种不同的体系结构进行了比较；分析了主动网的主要应用方向，包括网络管理、拥塞控制、多播和信息缓存；列举了为保障主动网的安全性必须考虑的几个关键技术问题，并对如何实现安全的主动网给出了一个建议的操作步骤。在总结主动网发展状况的同时，对一个自行设计的主动网远程测试系统进行了分析。

This paper introduces and compares the architectures of active networks, and analyzes their main applications including network management, congestion control, multicasting and web cache, which might give great improvement of performance and intelligence to existing communication networks. This paper also enumerates some technical issues of security of active networks, and gives a recommendation on operating steps to implement secure active networks. The developing status is also summarized and a long-range survey system is introduced.