Research On Active Network-based Online Auction System

Online auction systems require high-speed bid transmission, large bandwidth and timely response. Most current implementations of online auction systems perform all the auction operations on the auction server without any support from the network. This results in a large number of bid collisions, thus reducing the performance.Active networking is a new networking paradigm and it is not only a passive means of Bit delivery but also a more common computing model. Active network can be simply considered as an aggregate of active nodes which can do some customizing operations to packets traveling in them. Active network technology can not only compute the datum traveling in network nodes but also infuse the customizing programs to the network nodes and these programs may amend, save or redirect consumer datum traveling in it. The result is a more flexible and powerful network that can be used to speed up the deployment of applications.This thesis presents a novel approach to the design of online auction systems using active networks. The goal of this design is to develop efficient and portable quality of service mechanisms to perform a variety of auction system tasks. The thesis discusses the system design model and its implementation on an active network test bed. The utilization of active network technology accomplishes several enhancements such as reduction in number of bid collisions, better server utilization, fast response, adjustment of the server bandwidth. Performance results from experiments on the active network environment using Mobile Agent validate many of the advantages of the proposed approach.