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General Overview Presentation

1. An system overview in either powerpoint or pdf formats.
2. Overview of the port level processing within the embedded cpu module, in either powerpoint or pdf formats.
3. Additional information is also available on the Washintgton University Gigabit Network Kits Site.

Papers describing the NSP or related Topics

• Design of a High Performance Dynamically Extensible Router, by Sumi Choi, John Dehart, Ralph Keller, Fred Kuhns, John Lockwood, Prashanth Pappu, Jyoti Parwatikar W. David Richard, Ed Spitznagel, David Taylor, Jonathan Turner and Ken Wong.
  Proceedings of the DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition, 5/02.
• Implementation of an Open Multi-Service Router by Fred Kuhns, John Dehart, Ralph Keller, John Lockwood, P. Pappu, J. Parwatikar, Ed Spitznagel, Dave Richards, Dave Taylor, Jon Turner, and Ken Wong, Washington University, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report WUCS-01-20, August, 2001.
• Dynamic Hardware Plugins (DHP): Exploiting Reconfigurable Hardware for High-Performance Programmable Routers by David E. Taylor, Jonathan S. Turner, John W. Lockwood, Edson L. Horta. Computer Networks, 2/02, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 295-310.
• Queue Management for Short-Lived TCP Flows in Backbone Routers, by Anshul Kantawala and Jonathan Turner, Proceeding of High-Speed Symposium, Globecom 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.
• Scalable IP Lookup for Programmable Routers, by David E. Taylor, John W. Lockwood, Todd Sproull, Jonathan S. Turner, David B. Parlour, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2002, 6/02.
• Efficient Queue Management for TCP Flows, by Anshul Kantawala and Jonathan Turner, Proceeding of SPECTS 2002, San Diego, CA, July 2002.

Some Related Presentations

• SPC: Using the SPC, Washington University Gigabit Kits Workshop, January 2000 (PPT)(PDF)
• Hardware: Design of a Flexible Open Platform for High Performance Active Networks, Allerton Conference, September 1999 (PDF) (PPT)
• CPU Scheduling: CPU Scheduling for Active Processing using Feedback Deficit Round Robin, Allerton Conference, September 1999 (PDF)
• Overview: Design of a High Performance Active Router, DARPA - New Program Manager Review, March 99 (PDF)
• ANN: A Scalable, High Performance Active Network Node, DARPA Active Nets Workshop, July 98, Atlanta (PPT - PDF)