September 1, 2000
      
                  
        
  Author(s)
  Y  Carlinet,   V  Galtier,   Kevin L. Mills,   Stefan D. Leigh,   Andrew L. Rukhin
 
       
            
    
    
        tive Network technology envisions deployment of virtual execution environments within network elements, so that nonhomogeneous processing can be applied to network traffic. For management purposes, each node must have a meaningful understanding of resource