Extensible Router Studies
Melvin Tsai, 25 Jul 2002
Last updated: 25 Jul 2002

These are two papers from Larry Peterson's group at Princeton that study "Extensible Routers," or systems that aid in the development of network protocols and services.

One paper compares three existing systems: MIT's Click, Princeton's Scout, and Washington University's Router Plugins. The other paper describes a virtual router architecture called VERA (built on top of Scout) that hides the hardware details of the underlying architecture from software.