Special issue on Management of Active and Programmable Networks
Guest editors: Stephen Bush and Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

GUEST EDITORIAL
Management of Active and Programmable Networks
   Stephen F. Bush and Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, pp. 1-5

THRESHOLDS
Communications and Control – A natural linkage for SWARM
   John Hershey, Stephen F. Bush, and Ralph Hoctor , pp. 7-13

PAPERS
Scalable Network Management using Lightweight Programmable Network Services
   Kenneth L. Calvert and James Griffioen, pp. 15-47

Edge-Cut Bounds on Network Coding Rates
   Gerhard Kramer and Serap A. Savari, pp. 49-67

Detecting Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Using Kolmogorov Complexity Metrics
   Amit Kulkarni and Stephen Bush, pp. 68-80

Automated Pattern-Based Service Deployment In Programmable Networks
   Daniela Brauckhoff, Matthias Bossardt, and Bernhard Plattner, pp. 81-101

On A Self-Organized Multi-Path Routing Protocol in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
   Jun Liu, pp. 103-126

A Logical Architecture for Active Network Management
   Salvatore Gaglio, Luca Gatani, Giuseppe Lo Re, and Alfonso Urso, pp. 127-146

Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management
   Ichiro Satoh, pp. 147-169

REPORT
Ambient Networks—A Report on DSOM 2005
   Jürgen Schönwälder and Joan Serrat , pp. 171-173