An open approach for deploying programming nodes into communication networks

Nowadays, we are facing in the computer network research community new chal lenges related to the concepts of programmable and active networks. Great e fforts have been spent to make current data communication networks more fle xible and dynamic. Unfortunately, such efforts are followed by complexity a nd, therefore, the process of deploying the mechanisms has been committed. In order to make this process simpler, this work presents an open approach for having programmable nodes that make computer networks more dynamic in t erms of adding new services without increasing complexity. This approach pr esents SNPI (Simple Network Programming Interface), which is a group of ske letons and data structures resources that make possible to the programmers and developers a fast deployment of new services into the network. The mech anism presented allows the access to internal mechanisms of data flow proce ssing in the network nodes.