A threaded/flow approach to reconfigurable distributed systems and service primitives architectures

Abstract

This paper discusses a methodology for managing the assembly, control, and disassembly of large numbers of independent small-scale configurations within large-scale reconfigurable distributed systems. The approach is targeted at service primitives architectures for enhanced telecommunications networks, but can apply to more general settings such as multi-tasking supercomputers and network operations systems.* Study of the methods presented here was a key motivation in founding the Bell Communications Research Integrated Media Architecture Laboratory (IMAL) [1].