Bio-inspired Policy Based Management (bioPBM) for Autonomic Bio-inspired Policy Based Management (bioPBM) for Autonomic

Author

Balasubramaniam, Sasitharan ; Barrett, Keara ; Donnelly, William ; Van der Meer, Sven ; Strassner, John

Author_Institution

TSSG, Waterford Inst. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

5-7 June 2006

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

12

Abstract

The tremendous development of Internet infrastructures as well as communication technologies has led to an increase in network management complexity. Autonomic control is one way to manage complexity. Policy based management systems (PBMS) provide a consistent model for decision making using a set of abstractions (i.e., to manage the system in a manner that is independent from the complexities of low level network technologies). In this paper, we develop a hierarchical bio-inspired PBMS based on mechanisms for organism regulation that supports self-organisation and self-management at different levels of the hierarchy. We employ this mechanism towards network management of autonomic communications systems

Keywords

Internet; computer network management; self-adjusting systems; Internet; autonomic communications systems; autonomic control; bioinspired policy based management; communication technologies; decision making; hierarchical bioinspired PBMS; network management complexity; organism regulation; policy based management systems; Cells (biology); Communication networks; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Costs; Humans; IP networks; Organisms; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 2006. Policy 2006. Seventh IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

London, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2598-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/POLICY.2006.12

Filename

1631150