| In recent year, the functionality of networking infrastructure has
expanded to the point where routers not only provide data
connectivity but also a variety of processing services. A major
challenge in this context is to manage these processing resources
and to allocate them to data transfers in an efficient manner. In
our work, we present a novel way of how end-system applications can
specify resource requirements. We explore the performance of several
heuristic approaches to solving the intractable problem of mapping
requirements to system resources.
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