Network policy languages: a survey and a new approach

IEEE Network

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 10-21

  Stone, Gary N ^a   Lundy, Bert ^a   Xie, Geoffrey G ^b  

^a Department of Defense ^*

^b Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FORMAL LOGIC; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SECURITY OF DATA; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK POLICY LANGUAGES; PATH BASED POLICY LANGUAGE; POLICY BASED ROUTING PROTOCOLS; POLICY INFORMATION MODEL; WILD CARD CHARACTERS;

INTERNET;

EID: 0035105410     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/65.898818     Document Type: Article

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