Abstract-Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) is a new technology for feature specification and composition, based on a virtual architecture offering benefits analogous to those of a pipe-and-filter architecture. In the DFC architecture, customer calls are processed by dynamically assembled configurations of filter-like components: each component implements an applicable feature, and communicates with its neighbors by featureless internal calls that are connected by the underlying architectural substrate.
For example, the pipe-and-filter architecture and the Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) REF .
Distributed feature composition: a virtual architecture for telecommunications services
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