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2           Lightweight Autonomic Network Architecture (LANA)
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5 Web: http://www.epics-project.eu/
6 Abstract: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2065222
8 Network programming is widely understood as programming strictly defined socket
9 interfaces. Only some frameworks have made a step towards 'real' network
10 programming by decomposing networking functionality into small modular blocks
11 (functional blocks) that can be assembled in a flexible, graph-like manner. In
12 this work, we tackle the challenge of accommodating 3 partially conflicting
13 objectives:
15    (i) high flexibility for network programmers,
16   (ii) re-configuration of the network stack at runtime, and 
17  (iii) high packet forwarding rates.
19 First experiences with a prototype implementation in Linux suggest little
20 performance overhead compared to the standard Linux protocol stack.
22 How to browse the source:
23    src/             - Contains all kernel modules of LANA
24    usr/             - Contains userspace configuration tools for LANA
25    app/             - Contains a voice-over-Ethernet application that
26                       uses PF_LANA BSD sockets
27    sem/             - Contains a set of semantic patches that can be
28                       used with Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
29    microblaze/      - SoC design files and kernel conf for the ML605 board
30                       LANA microblaze port:
31                            https://github.com/borkmann/linux-microblaze
32    doc/             - The name says everything, you need LaTeX for this
34 Within the src/ folder, there are files named:
35    fb_*.c           - These are functional block kernel modules
36    core.c           - LANA core loader (-> lana.ko)
37    xt_*.{c,h}       - LANA core extensions
39 For questions, bugs and other things, you can write the authors, see the
40 REPORTING-BUGS file. Happy Kernel Hacking! :-)