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The virtual network system

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Juho Määttä,

Risto Järvinen,

Riku Luostarinen,

Jukka MannerAuthors Info & Claims

M-MPAC '10: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1890791.1890794

Published: 29 November 2010 Publication History

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A popular technology area quickly gains competing solutions to solve the same goal. Examples include file systems and storage, and communication technologies. All competing solutions typically introduce their own specific functionality, programming models and APIs; this generally forces application programmers to choose a specific solution and build the application for it. There exists exceptions to this unfortunate state of affairs, e.g., Linux includes the Virtual File System (VFS) to decouple applications from specific local storage devices. A similar functionality is provided by the Network File System (NFS), i.e., it decouples the client from the storage server. The communication technologies do not have a similar solution: each technology is different and has its own programming model and API. In this paper we introduce the Virtual Network System (VNS) that combines the concepts of VFS and NFS for communication technologies. Our solution is a middleware that enables a unified API for applications to use any communication technology, local or remote. We describe our architecture and discuss our current implementation that enables communication over IP and VHF radio.

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Yang ZWang JLong FWang C(2013)Design and Analysis of the Virtual Strategy in Satelite NetworksProceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data10.1109/CLOUDCOM-ASIA.2013.109(646-650)Online publication date: 16-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CLOUDCOM-ASIA.2013.109
Maatta JJarvinen RLuostarinen RLiuhto LTaira TManner J(2011)Analysis and implementation of the virtual network system2011 - MILCOM 2011 Military Communications Conference10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127528(1553-1558)Online publication date: Nov-2011
https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127528

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The virtual network system
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Protocol correctness
      1. Protocol testing and verification

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M-MPAC '10: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing

November 2010

59 pages

ISBN:9781450304511

DOI:10.1145/1890791

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Sotirios Terzis
University of Strathclyde, UK
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Luís Veiga
INESC-ID/Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Yang ZWang JLong FWang C(2013)Design and Analysis of the Virtual Strategy in Satelite NetworksProceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data10.1109/CLOUDCOM-ASIA.2013.109(646-650)Online publication date: 16-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CLOUDCOM-ASIA.2013.109
Maatta JJarvinen RLuostarinen RLiuhto LTaira TManner J(2011)Analysis and implementation of the virtual network system2011 - MILCOM 2011 Military Communications Conference10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127528(1553-1558)Online publication date: Nov-2011
https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127528

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