Abstract:
Ever since the advent of the World Wide Web (the Internet), researchers in
the field of Computer Networking have been in search of new and innovative
ways to make networking more efficient, reliable, secure and fast. The
amount of data in the world is increasing exponentially over the years. We
have evolved from 14.4 kbps internet connection speeds to internet
connection speeds in the range of hundreds of megabits. We need even faster
means of communication over computer networks to support the transfer of
such huge amounts of data. We need our networking equipment to be
bandwidth efficient and with induced intelligence at runtime that can
dynamically balance packet routes based on information deduced from
ongoing traffic.
In this scenario, we propose the idea of Application Aware Routing which
supports the routing of packets on the basis of their OSI Layer 4-7 features
i.e. Protocol and URL.
