On Network Management Solutions and the Potential of P2P Technologies

These days, P2P technologies, in particular, have been emerging as a promising solution that may be used in the field of network management. This paper first studies current evolution of network management solutions. Then an evaluation of existing solutions is provided and P2P technologies are then introduced to make up their limitations in term of performance, scalability, flexibility, maintainability and reliability. Our analysis shows that, due to their characteristics, P2P technologies provide a feasible way to implement inter-domain network management, moving towards cooperative management, which is rather lacking in existing solutions, and a P2P-based solution may be a prospective one to fit well in current requirement of highly distributed network management. Further considerations about integration with other solutions are also included in this paper.