Architecture and applications of PLATO, a reconfigurable active network platformArchitecture and applications of PLATO, a reconfigurable active network platform Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2015-11-122001enA new, configurable architecture has been designed and built in order to serve as a platform for experimentation with active networks. This architecture, named PLATO, provides 4 physical bi-directional connections for ATM networks, large reconfigurable resources, 256 Mbytes SDRAM for buffer space, a PCI port, and auxiliary expansion ports. Several applications are presented for this platform, one of which has been prototyped on the PCI Pamette and on PLATO. Detailed simulations and experimental results show that, for some applications, a significant improvement can be obtained using this approach as compared to using conventional network architectures. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/101-1109th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Dollas Apostolos Δολλας Αποστολος Pnevmatikatos Dionysios Πνευματικατος Διονυσιος Aslanidis, Nikos, 1980- Kavvadias Stamatios Sotiriadis Evripidis Σωτηριαδης Ευριπιδης Zogopoulos Sotirios Papadimitriou Kyprianos Παπαδημητριου Κυπριανος Chrysos Nikolaos Harteros Konstantinos Antonidakis, Manolis Petrakis Nikolaos Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Active electric networks Networks, Active electric networks active active electric networks networks active