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This paper presents Protean, a programmable network architecture for future networks. Protean is an event-driven network architecture that allows service providers, applications, and even individual flows to customize the network services, while at the same time providing efficient data paths for flows that use default services. A key feature of Protean is the support for state management. A service that is invoked at one node has the ability to access and update non-local state, and the management of distributed network state is achieved by a core-based self-configuring infrastructure in Protean.
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Sivakumar, R., Venkitaraman, N., Bharghavan, V. (1999). The Protean Programmable Network Architecture: Design and Initial Experience. In: Covaci, S. (eds) Active Networks. IWAN 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48507-0_4
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