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Sphere: A Binding Model and Middleware for Routing Protocols

Overview The design, deployment and architecting of new routing protocols is time-consuming and costly. Routing protocols are complex systems that are characterized by the way they manage distributed network state in order to formulate forwarding tables. Existing routing protocol implementations are monolithic, bundling together a database with an optimal path calculation algorithm and a network state distribution mechanism.

In this paper, we present a binding model and middleware that decomposes routing protocols into fundamental building blocks called Sphere. We identify the role of each component and show how new routing protocols can be dynamically composed from a hierarchy of base classes.

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Publisher	Columbia University Department of Computer Science	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2001	Downloads	5
Format	White Papers
Topics	Industry Standard Protocols, Middleware

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