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Towards an Active Network Architecture * David L. Tennenhouse and David J. Wetherall Telemedia, Networks and Systems Group, MIT ABSTRACT particularly interesting, replaces the passive packets of present day architectures with active “capsules” – Active networks allow their users to inject miniature programs that are executed at each router customized programs into the nodes of the network. An they traverse. This change in architectural perspective, extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces from passive packets to active capsules, packets with “capsules” – program fragments that are simultaneously addresses both of the “active” executed at each network router/switch they traverse. properties described above. User data can be Active architectures permit a massive increase in the embedded within these mini-programs, in much the sophistication of the computation that is performed way a page’s contents are embedded within a fragment within the