Welcome to the home page for the PLAN Streaming Audio project. Take a look at What's New in our web.

One of the Internet’s most exciting features is its capability to make data available to people all over the world at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods of distribution. As the Internet has become increasingly popular, individuals and companies have begun to strive to do more things with it that push the bounds of today’s network technology and the assumptions that it was built upon. Multimedia is an especially challenging new aspect to the Internet that many companies are working on as a way to make content more exciting and interactive for their audience. Unfortunately, the nature of multimedia content makes it especially sensitive to nearly all of the performance characteristics by which we measure a network’s performance, such as bandwidth, latency and packet loss.

PLAN (Programming Language for Active Networks) is an effort to make the routers on a network fully programmable. This would essentially allow the network to be easily customized and upgraded to support new features, as well as enabling new features that only "intelligent" routers could handle.

Our proposal is to implement an application which will stream audio from one point to another over a PLAN network. We offer this project as proof-of-concept to show that a PLAN network can indeed effectively cope with the various metrics which bound the performance and quality of streaming audio.

What's New

The following is a list of recent additions to our web. Whenever we publish a paper, write a specification, submit a status report, or add anything else to our web, we'll put a notice here. Every month we'll remove the oldest items. The most recent changes are listed first, and each item is linked to the page with the updated content.

10/23/97

12/10/97

12/21/97

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For problems or questions regarding this web contact rkuo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.
Last updated: December 21, 1997.