Atropos on IEEE Comm. Network Website

The Atropos (formerly AVNMP) system description can be found on the IEEE website: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/public/2002/jul/nisoftt.html.

The Atropos Toolkit is an active network toolkit that allows experimentation with predictive capability within a network while the network is operating. The toolkit is an active application that executes within a network assuming an overlay active network exists (included in the Atropos Toolkit). Active networking provides a framework in which executable code within data packets executes on intermediate network nodes. The Atropos Toolkit provides an infrastructure that maintains state and enforces event causality, easing the development of numerous small and predictive network component models. User-defined algorithms, injected into the network, allow system state to be predicted and efficiently propagated throughout the network.