Title :
A BPM-based solution for inter-domain circuit management
Author :
De Santanna, José Jair Cardoso ; Wickboldt, Juliano Araujo ; Granville, Lisandro Zambenedetti
Author_Institution :
Fed. Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Abstract :
In the last few years, network middleware solutions have been proposed to deal with Quality of Service (QoS) demands of end-user network applications. Usually, such solutions employ virtual circuits, with end-points often located in different administrative domains. However, these middleware solutions still do not support online human decisions. The human-centered support is specially important when pre-installed rules do not suffice to evaluate virtual circuit requests. In this paper, we present a middleware for dynamic circuit networks (DCNs) based on the Business Process Management (BPM) approach to support human administrator decisions in virtual circuits provisioning. A set of experiments have been conducted in the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP) backbone, and the findings in performance and flexibility are presented.
Keywords :
business process re-engineering; middleware; quality of service; BPM-based solution; Brazilian National Education; DCN; QoS; RNP; Research Network backbone; business process management approach; dynamic circuit networks; end-user network applications; human-centered support; interdomain circuit management; network middleware solutions; quality of service demand; virtual circuit requests; Authorization; Decision making; Electronic mail; Engines; Humans; Middleware;
Conference_Titel :
Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0267-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1542-1201
DOI :
10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211922
