ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Architecture and techniques for diagnosing faults in IEEE 802.11 infrastructure networks
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Troubleshooting wireless mesh networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Network Management Fundamentals
Network Management Fundamentals
Automating cross-layer diagnosis of enterprise wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
On the Evolution of Management Approaches, Frameworks and Protocols: A Historical Perspective
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Self-configurable fault monitoring in ad-hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Beyond pilots: keeping rural wireless networks alive
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Tegola tiered mesh network testbed in rural Scotland
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Wireless networks and systems for developing regions
Autonomic and Decentralized Management of Wireless Access Networks
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Experiences in using WiFi for rural internet in India
IEEE Communications Magazine
Key research challenges in network management
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Stix is a platform managing emerging large-scale broadband wireless access (BWA) networks. It has been developed to make it easy to manage such networks for community deployments and wireless Internet service providers while keeping the network management infrastructure scalable and flexible. Stix is based on the notions of goal-oriented and in-network management. With Stix, administrators graphically specify network management activities as workflows, which are deployed at a distributed set of agents within the network that cooperate in executing those workflows and storing management information. We implement the Stix system on embedded boards and show that the implementation has a low memory footprint. Using real topology and logging data from a large-scale BWA network operator, we show that Stix is significantly more scalable (via reduction in management traffic) compared to the commonly employed centralized management approach. Finally we use two case studies to demonstrate the ease with which Stix platform can be used for carrying out network reconfiguration and performance management tasks, thereby also showing its potential as a flexible platform to realize self-management mechanisms.