Abstract | In this paper, a new service oriented networking
paradigm is presented, where network nodes (peers) are self-
organized into individual service entities. The key idea relies on
the overlay approach, where there exists a virtual service plane,
fragmented into self-organized and self-managed entities called
islands of service transparency. The islands are formed in an
upstream, ad-hoc mode from the non-networking resources (i.e
VoD, grid server, etc) towards all ingress routers of the network,
using link state advertisements and multi-cost path selection
algorithms (i.e residual bandwidth, server capacity, storage, etc).
Organization and re-organization of nodes around non-network
resources is transparent to end-users, and thus any request
within a specific service island is transparently routed to the
island’s resource for execution. A service proxy is commissioned
to resolve service addresses and service attributes to QoS metrics.
In this paper, we present the main notations and metrics of the
proposed architecture as well as node behavior and potential
GMPLS extensions for implementation issues |