Title :
Towards Consistency of Policy States in Decentralized Autonomic Network Management
Author :
Nobre, Jéferson Campos ; Granville, Lisandro Zambenedetti
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf., Fed. Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Abstract :
Autonomic network management is a vision that brings autonomic computing principles to network management. In this vision, the use of policies is a key aspect. Besides, it is necessary some level of decentralization to enable broad autonomic capabilities. However, the consistency of policy states among autonomic management elements is an important challenge. In this paper we introduce multi-agent truth maintenance features in decentralized autonomic network management as a mechanism to bring consistency maintenance of policy states. We developed a model of a decentralized autonomic network management system on Peersim to perform simulation experiments. Besides, the utilization of policies in P2P-based autonomic network management systems is presented as case study.
Keywords :
peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication network management; P2P; Peersim; consistency maintenance; decentralized autonomic network management; multiagent truth maintenance; peer-to-peer system; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer applications; Computer network management; Computer networks; Computer vision; Distributed computing; Humans; Informatics; Proposals; Autonomic Network Management; Multi-Agent Truth Maintenance; P2P Overlays; Policy-Based Network Management;
Conference_Titel :
Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 2009. POLICY 2009. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3742-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3742-9
DOI :
10.1109/POLICY.2009.12
