Analysis of Applications and Developing Status of Active Networks

This paper introduces and compares the architectures of active networks, and analyzes their main applications including network management, congestion control, multicasting and web cache, which might give great improvement of performance and intelligence to existing communication networks. This paper also enumerates some technical issues of security of active networks, and gives a recommendation on operating steps to implement secure active networks. The developing status is also summarized and a long-range survey system is introduced.