Control de recursos en un nodo de red programable con entorno de ejecución basado en Java

A difficult problem to solve in systems based in Java [1], such as execution environments of programmable network nodes, is how to control the resource consumption of applications. Because of this, buggy or malicious applications can potentially crash these network nodes. Java is a good choice to program the network, because it offers many features to ease development of network applications, such as portability, safety, multithreading, etc. This paper proposes and evaluates an interface to control the resource consumption of applications. The implementation uses only standard mechanisms of the Java Virtual Machine in order to get a portable and independent solution.