Wetherall
Active Network Vision and Reality: Lessons from a Capsule-Based System
D. Wetherall, “Active Network Vision and Reality: Lessons from a Capsule-Based System,” 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, (December 1999). [PDF] Summary Active networks were a radical concept of allowing untrusted sources to execute codes on network operators’ hardware to allow faster and easier deployment of diverse distributed applications. Consequently, it also ran the risk ...
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Understanding BGP Misconfiguration
R. Mahajan, D. Wetherall, T. Anderson, “Understanding BGP Misconfiguration,” ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2002). Summary Misconfigurations in BGP tables result in excessive routing load, connectivity disruption, and policy violation. However, misconfigurations are widely prevalent in the Internet without any systematic study of their characteristics. This paper presents an empirical study of the BGP misconfigurations with ...
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