The Bio-Networking Architecture : Its Architectural Design and Platform Implementation

Future networks will connect heterogeneous objects and services, and be much larger and more complex than the current networks. We believe that making this future a reality requires a network that exhibits selforganization with inherent support for scalability, mobility, adaptability to environmental changes in network, and survivability/availability from massive failures and attacks. In the Bio-Networking Architecture we have proposed, we apply biological concepts and mechanisms into network application design because biological systems have already realized the above desirable properties. This architecture is a new framework for developing large-scale, highly distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic network applications. This paper describes the key architectural goals and application level features in the BioNetworking Architecture, and identifies a set of requirements to the BioNetworking platform, or bionet platform, which is distributed object middleware to aid developing applications by providing reusable software components. Then, we present the design of bionet platform and describe how the identified requirements are satisfied in bionet platform. We also present our implementation status and several results of preliminary measurements to examine performance and scalability of bionet platform.

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