Previous sections presented the architecture of control and data planes in ALMI. One of the advantages in ALMI is its ease of deploying value-added services for applications, such as end-to-end reliability, data integrity and authentication, and quality of service. A complete design of building blocks to fulfill these requirements is outside the scope of this paper. This section discusses briefly design points in supporting some of these components and in particular, we present our design and protocols for a reliable data distribution service which we have recently implemented.
