The Distributed SW ROuter Project (DROP), aims to develop and enable a cooperative middleware for distributed IP-router control and management. DROP allows logical network nodes to be built through the aggregation of multiple SRs based on the Linux operating system and commodity hardware, which can be devoted to packet forwarding or control operations. In addition to the original ForCES design, DROP aims to extend router distribution and aggregation concepts by moving them to a network-wide scale to enable and support value-added services for next-generation networks. This work has been at the basis of the following papers:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293958206_Enhancing_Energy-Efficient_Cloud_Management_through_Code_Annotations_and_the_Green_Abstraction_Layer and https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31854-7_10